Used as Collateral (Maxwell/Jones)

On December 17, 1824, William Maxwell used as collateral on a promissory note of $2200 to Joseph Jones “the following five negroes, with the future increase of the female negroes, to wit, Rachel & her three children, named Louisa (a girl about seven years of age Pompey (a boy about four years of age) and Abraham (a boy about two years of age) and Sam (a fellow about twenty eight years of age).” Witnessed by Jesse Campbell. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 23, 1824. 

On a following page: “Georgia, Liberty County } Whereas an unintentional mistake or error has been discovered, wherein it appears, that the within named negroes had been previously mortgaged by William Maxwell to Josiah Wilson…” Joseph Jones therefore cancelled the mortgage after receipt of another bond for $1100 from William Maxwell and his wife Elizabeth Maxwell. Jones noted that he retained the lien he had “on a certain negro fellow named Isaac, previously mortgaged to said Joseph Jones by said Maxwell in the year 1819 in the clerk’s office 25th March 1819, pages 227, 228 & 229 in Book H.” Witnessed by Raymond Harris. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on January 6, 1825.