Enslaved Persons Named: Nancy, Bella, Tom
On July 1, 1826, Thomas J. Shepard, of “Zebulon in the County of Pike and State of Georgia,” used as collateral on a promissory note of $1228.26 to Charles W. Rockwell, Charles Kelsey, Charles McIntire and George Ralph, copartners in the firm Charles W. Rockwell and Company, merchants of Savannah, “three negroes, viz. Nancy, a wench twenty eight years old; Bella, a child about seven years old, and a negro man Tom, a shoemaker by trade, about thirty years of age,” in addition to Lot $5 in the town of Riceborough, adjoining the lots of Samuel J. Axson and Daniel Stetson. Witnessed by Thomas B. Daniel. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 30, 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. 222. Image #419 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSYY-Y?i=418&cat=292358)