Enslaved Persons Named: Charles, Lydia; Quash, Harry, Titus, ?addy, Susanna, Bella, Solomon, Old Jim, Abram, Lucy
On December 15, 1824, Thomas D. Bacon, Liberty County, borrowed $1500 from his father Thomas F. Bacon’s estate, via Samuel S. Law, the executor, and used as collateral on the loan his inheritance: “the following negroes, to wit, Charles, Lydia; Quash, Harry, Titus, ?addy, Susanna, Bella, Solomon, Old Jim, Abram, and Lucy,” along with “one half of the Yellow Bluff tract, after adding a part of the Middle Tract, as it is called, which is noted on the plat that Henry drew of a resurvey, which note says, Corner: says stake per pine, where is drawn a lawn across & says, To this pine, which is a line tree on the line between Capt. William Maxwell & the land of the said Thomas F. Bacon deceased; which said part is to be added to Yellow Bluff, joining Mr. Audley Maxwell, dividing it by a line from the Bluff running across the Tiger Thicket, all of which land, lying and being situate on the Colonel’s Island…” Witnessed by Audley Maxwell. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on January 7, 1825.
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. 116. Image #360 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBP-8?i=359&cat=292358)