Enslaved Persons Named: Jacob, Romeo, Nero, Mingo, June, Caesar, Brutus, Tom, Morris, July, James, Old Joe, Smart, Sharp, Venus, Peggy, Camba, Sylvia, Daphina, Celia, Flora, Pender [alt: Penda], Dianna, Bella, Phebea, Nancy, Boatswain
On March 2, 1789, Joseph Woodruff, Liberty County, turned over to Susannah Garven, widow, and Ferdinand Oneal, both also of Liberty County, for 250 pounds “all those twenty seven negroe Slaves, namely, Jacob, Romeo, Nero, Mingo, June, Caesar, Brutus, Tom, Morris, July, James, Old Joe, Smart, Sharp, Venus, Peggy, Camba, Sylvia, Daphina, Celia, Flora, Pender [alt: Penda], Dianna, Bella, Phebea, Nancy and Boatswain (a child),” along with assorted furniture, cattle, horses, hogs, canoes. Woodruff noted that they were to hold this property in trust for his sons, George Woodruff, Joseph Woodruff and James Woodruff, who were to share it equally. If the sons were to die as minors, then the property was to pass to Mary Woodruff and her daughter Mary Ann Oneal, and then to their heirs. Witnessed by Charles Abernethey, Thomas Houstoun. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 20, 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. 329-31. Image #444-5 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FGH4?i=443&cat=292358)