Enslaved Persons Named: Charles
On June 3, 1828, Liberty County Sheriff Benjamin Mell sold to Jonathan Bacon for $312 “a certain negro slave named Charles.” After a judgment against Oliver Stevens for Andrew Maybank, Sheriff Mell had seized Charles from his home and put him up for public auction at the Liberty County courthouse in Riceborough, and Bacon was the highest bidder. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on on February 25, 1830.
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. 387. Image #501 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SST5-C?cat=292358)