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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Holmes/Bank of State of Georgia)

Enslaved Persons Named: Harry, Dinah, Chloe, Josephine, Caesar, Elsey, Bathsheba, Lucy, Buonaparte [alt: Bonaparte]

On March 7, 1826, “the Bank of the State of Georgia bought one old negro man named Harry, one old negro woman named Dinah, and seven children, named Chloe, Josephine, Caesar, Elsey, Bathsheba, Lucy, Buonaparte [alt: Bonaparte], being in all nine slaves in number, which were levied on as the property of James Holmes, deceased, to satisfy an execution, issuing out of the Honourable the Inferior Court of said County, at the suit of the Bank of the State of Georgia against the said James Holmes, for the sum of eighteen hundred dollars, with interest and costs; and also to satisfy sundry other executions. Liberty County Sheriff William Maxwell executed the sale. Witnessed by Wm. [William] Law. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 2, 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. 242. Image #429  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSB9-3?i=428&cat=292358)