Bill of Sale (Cuthbert/Stacy)

On December 22, 1826, at Forsyth, Louisa E. Cuthbert requested that her trustee, John W. Stacy, “sell the plantation called ‘Cherry Hill,’ lying in the county of Liberty, being a part of my trust estate, to Mr. Andrew Maybank for the sum of six hundred dollars.” Half was to be paid when the titles were executed, and the other half a year later. Her husband, John A. Cuthbert, also signified his approval of the sale. 

In an attached deed, executed on January 29, 1827, John W. Stacy, trustee for Louisa E. Cuthbert, sold Cherry Hill plantation to Andrew Maybank, describing it as a 400-acre tract of land lying on the “waters of Midway” in Liberty County, bounded south by land belonging to John Girardeau & John Dunwody, north by John W. Stacy & John N. Way, west by John Dunwody, and east by the David G. Holms estate & Paul H. Wilkins on the northeast. WItnessed by Jos. [Joseph] Jones. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on January 30, 1827.