Enslaved Persons Named: Dora
On April 7, 1831, Sarah M. Dunham, spinster of Liberty County, and Joseph Baisden, merchant of Camden County, entered into a marriage contract, with Jacob H. Dunham and Charles E. Dunham, as her trustees. Put into trust for Sarah were “two certain negro slaves bequeathed to the said Sarah M. By the last will and testament of Mrs. Ann Bradford, late of the County of McIntosh deceased…a certain negro woman slave named Dora, and her child named [left blank].” Witnessed by George W. Dunham, Thomas J. Dunham. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 11, 1831.
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. 453-4. Image #534-5 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSY9-G?i=533&cat=292358)