They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Estate Settlement (Baillie/Baillie)

Enslaved Persons Named: Juno, Jupiter, Cloe, Bristol, Lowhill, Joe

On March 1, 1770, Elizabeth Powell and James McKay acknowledged receipt as trustees for the use of Mrs. Jean Darling, formerly Jean Baillie, from her father Kenneth Baillie’s last will and testament of “one bed and Furniture, one Negroe Wench named Juno with her child called Jupiter, one Girl called Cloe [alt: Chloe], one fellow named Bristol, one fellow named Lowhill, twenty two head neat cattle and fifty pounds in cash, one boy called Joe.” Said to have been recorded in the Georgia Secretary’s Office in Book R, folio 547, 548, on May 23, 1772.  Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on October 27, 1788. 

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. 135. Image #338 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FG2K?i=337&cat=292358)