They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Used as Collateral (Dunham/Tufts & Reed)

Enslaved Persons Named: Mary, Moses

On March 11, 1824, Jacob H. Dunham, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note for $272.28 to Gardner Tufts & Elias Reed, merchants of Chatham County, “the following negro slaves, to wit, Mary, a black woman about forty two years of age & her son Moses, a yellow fellow, about twenty seven years of age.” Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 22, 1824.

Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book  I, 1822-1831, p. 79-80. Image #341-42  (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSRW-C?i=340&cat=292358)