Enslaved Persons Named: Lucy
On February 14, 1829, Willliam B. Bulloch and William Gaston, both of Savannah, Chatham County, trustees for Mrs. Charlotte Bulloch and her children, sold to Mrs. Jane Farquharson, also of Savannah, for $450 “a negro woman slave named Lucy.” Attached to this deed was the following note: “Savannah 14th Feby 1829. Messr. Wm. B. Bulloch & Wm. Gaston, Trustees, Gentlemen, Please execute titles to Mrs. Jane Farquharson for a negro woman named Lucy, whose conduct has required me to sell her for four hundred & fifty dollars; the purchase money to be again invested in a negro. [Signed] Charlotte Bulloch.”
Also attached was the following note: “Liberty County 16th May 1829. Know all men by these presents that I Jane Farquharson will & bequeath the within named negro slave Lucy, after my death, to my niece Isabella Jane Irvine, and in case of her death without issue, then to my niece Mary Sophia Irvine, & her heirs forever.”
Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 20, 1829.
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. 352. Image #484 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSY3-F?i=483&cat=292358)