Enslaved Persons Named: Elsey, Dick, Rosanna, Sally, Prince
On December 2, 1824, John O. Baker, Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note of $820 to Thomas J. Shepard, Liberty County, “the following negro slaves, together with the future issue and increase of the female slaves; namely Elsey and her four children Dick, Rosanna, Sally and Prince.” This note was meant to secure Shepard against risk because he had purchased Lot #5 in the town of Gravesend from Baker. Baker had previously mortgaged it to Uriah Wilcox, attonrey for Clarissa Hoadley, and the mortgage was unsatisfied at the time of the sale. Witnessed by Richard S. Baker, Gilbert Butler. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 4, 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. 109-10. Image #356-7 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBP-5?i=355&cat=292358)