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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Transfer (Jones/Jones)

Enslaved Persons Named: Jenny, Affee [alt: Affy], Amaritta, Martha, Mariah, Mary, George, Will

On June 6, 1825, Joseph Maybank Jones, who identified himself as the son of Joseph Jones Esquire, transferred to his father all his rights to “certain negro slaves deeded by my said father in trust to me, the said Joseph Maybank Jones, named Jenny, Affee [alt: Affy], Amaritta, Martha, Mariah, Mary, George and Will, they with the increase of the female slaves.” Joseph Maybank Jones made this deed when he had come of age, and identified the deed in which his father had originally deeded him the enslaved people as being recorded in Liberty County Book F, folios 142-143, dated December 12, 1806. Witnessed by Thomas Mallard. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 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. 138-9. Image #371  (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBK-G?i=370&cat=292358)