Enslaved Persons Named: Yellow Will, Nancy, Suckey, Cheveril, Jenny, Billy, Hannah, Doll, Aberdeen, Saul, Betty, Molly, Sunbury, Sukey, Dorcas, Pender, Sampson, Flora, Phebe, Little Sampson, Sophia, Long Dick, Big George, Abel, Cubbage, Maria, French George, Diana, Jenny & Abraham
On July 28, 1827, Liberty County Sheriff William Maxwell executed an 1826 court judgment foreclosing on an 1825 mortgage in which “thirty negro slaves named, to wit, Yellow Will, Nancy, Suckey, Cheveril, Jenny, Billy, Hannah, Doll, Aberdeen, Saul, Betty, Molly, Sunbury, Sukey, Dorcas, Pender, Sampson, Flora, Phebe, Little Sampson, Sophia, Long Dick, Big George, Abel, Cubbage, Maria, French George, Diana, Jenny & Abraham” had been mortgaged to Samuel S. Law for $11433.36 by James Holmes. After the Inferior Court judgment foreclosing on the mortgage, Sheriff Maxwell seized the “property herein after particularly mentioned, & have sold the said property, as is herein after mentioned, by public sale, according to the statues in such case made & provided, to the Bank of Darien, for the sum of seven thousand dollars, the highest sum bid for the same.” He formalized the sale of the thirty people to the Bank of Darien on July 28, 1827. Witnessed by Joseph Law Jr. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on July 28, 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. 241. Image #428 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBD-M?i=427&cat=292358)