They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Baker/Baker)

Enslaved Persons Named: Scipio

On December 8, 1790, John Baker, Liberty County, sold to Whitmarsh Baker, Liberty County, for 80 pounds sterling  “one negroe man named Scipio, about the age of twenty five years or thereabout.” Witnessed by John Baker Jr. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 18, 1790.

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. 329. Image #444 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FGH4?i=443&cat=292358)