Enslaved Persons Named: Flora
On May 1, 1827, Liberty County Deputy Sheriff Edward Way put up at auction at the Liberty County courthouse in Riceborough a “female slave named Flora,” who he had seized from her home after Messrs Shepherd & Williams had obtained a judgment against her owner, Micajah Andrews. Way sold her to the highest bidder, Nathaniel Varnedoe, for $355, to satisfy Andrews’ debt. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 11, 1827.
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. 233-4. Image #424-5 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSYR-T?i=423&cat=292358)