Enslaved Persons Named: Elsey, Lydia, Rose
On July 1, 1828, Liberty County Sheriff Benjamin Mell sold to Moses L. Jones for $330 “three certain negroes named Elsey, Lydia and Rose.” Mell had seized them from Thomas G. Way, after a judgment was obtained against the estate by Nathaniel Law and other [unnamed]. They were sold at auction at the Liberty County courthouse on July 1st, and Jones was the highest bidder. Witnessed by G.W. Dunham Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on July 10, 1828.
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. 308-9. Image #462 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSYC-J?i=461&cat=292358)