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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Baker/Ham)

Enslaved Persons Named: Tenah

On March 7, 1826, Liberty County Sheriff Edward Way put up “a certain negro slave, named Tenah” for public auction at the Liberty County courthouse at Riceborough and sold her to the highest bidder, Jesse Ham, for $130. Tenah had been  seized from the estate of Thomas Baker Jr. to satisfy a judgment against the estate on the part of the estate of Wm. [William] Anderson. Sale witnessed by Jos. [Joseph] Jones, R. Harris. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 24, 1826. 

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. 176-7. Image #390  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBL-3?i=389&cat=292358)