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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Bacon/Spencer)

Enslaved Persons Named: Cate

On April 12, 1825, John Bacon, Liberty County, gifted to his daughter Sarah Spencer, into a trust via his friend William Spencer, “a certain negro woman slave named Cate, and her two children Cuffee and Peter.” Witnessed by William Wilson, Q. [Quarterman] Way. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on November 28, 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. 153. Image #378  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBY-R?cat=292358)