Enslaved Persons Named: Tenar, Toney, Esther, Fanny, Will, Chloey, Guy, Jack, Toney
On November 5, 1783 at Little Ogeeche [Ogeechee], Hepworth Carter, Chatham County, gifted to Rebekah McLean, wife of John McLean, of Chatham County “the following Negroes viz: One Negroe wench named Tenar [alt: Tenah] and her two children Amey and Esther, One Negroe wench named Fanny and her two children Will and Chloey [alt: Chloe], One Negroe fellow named Guy and one negroe fellow named Jack and one negroe boy named Toney.” Witnessed by Charles Dunham, Ann Carter. On October 30, 1789, Ann Winn appeared before a Justice of the Peace to swear that she had been a witness to the above document being signed by Charles Dunham. [NOTE: Thus apparently Ann Carter’s name had changed to Ann Winn in the meantime.] Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on November 12, 1789. [NOTE: In another deed, Esther’s name was given as Hester.]
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. A-B 1777-1793,” Record Book B, 1787-1793, p. 215. Image #379 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FGMN?i=378&cat=292358)