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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Bacon/Wheler)

Enslaved Persons Named: Rose, Isaac, Affy, Abram, Diana

On August 16, 1827, Thomas Bacon, planter, Liberty County, gifted to “my sister Catharine Pamela Wheler’s children, viz. Martha J. Wheler, Thomas B. Wheler, Sarah M. Wheler, and Henry J.R. Wheler and any children that my sister Catharine P. Wheler may hereafter have” “the following negroes, viz. Rose, Isaac, Affy, Abram and Diana, and the future increase of the females.” Witnessed by Richard S. Baker, Eugene Bacon. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 12, 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. 404. Image #510  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSTG-N?i=509&cat=292358)