Enslaved Persons Named: Rose, Kate, Betty, Clarinda
On September 23, 1824, Charlton Hines, Liberty County, purchased at auction for $476 “four certain negro slaves the property of the said John L. Williams, named Rose, and her three children Kate, Betty and Clarinda.” They had been seized from Williams by the Liberty County Sheriff due to two writs of Fieri Facias obtained by G. Bresttmayer & Co and Josiah Penfield against Williams, and were put up for public sale at Riceboro in Liberty County on Tuesday, September 7. Hines was the highest bidder. Hines then “in consideration of the love, good will and affection which I have and bear for Mrs. Eliza Williams” gave Rose, Kate, Betty and Clarinda to John O. Baker and Thomas J. Shepard, both of Liberty County, in Trust for Eliza Williams for her natural life and to be inherited by any children she might have. He directed that Baker, Shepard and Eliza Williams be restrained from selling the four enslaved people or any of their future children “so as to [not] impair the right of the children of the said Eliza Williams to the said slaves, or to their future issue, after the decease of the said Eliza Williams. Witnessed by Samuel Baker. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on September 23, 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. 104-5. Image #354 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSR3-B?i=353&cat=292358)