Enslaved Persons Named: Celia
Due to foreclosure of a mortgage from Joshua W. Matthews to John Parland, filed in Glynn County Inferior Court, January Term 1827, Liberty County Deputy Sheriff Edward Way seized a “negro wench named Celia” from her home and put her up for public auction on November 7, 1826, at the Liberty County Courthouse. She was sold to the highest bidder, “Joseph Jones, for Nicholas Sallowich, guardian to Jacob Nicholas, Joseph Nicholas, James, Margaret, and Catharine Seymour, children of Joseph Seymour, deceased, for the sum of fifteen dollars.” Witnessed by John Somarsall. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on November 7, 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. 201. Image #402 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSB5-3?i=401&cat=292358)