Used as Collateral (Low/Sharp)

On August 20, 1788, Mrs. Mary Low, formerly Mrs. Mary Jones, wife of John Jones Esquire, merchant of Sunbury, Liberty County, appeared before Justice of the Peace John Lawson Junior to swear that she had delivered a receipt given by John Benfeild [alt: Benfield] “for a negro boy called Jack” to her brother Mr. James Sharp, “in order for him to carry said Receipt to Charleston to settle with Mr. Benfeild and to keep up the Bond then in his possession for said boy which said Receipt Mr. Sharp afterward informed her he had lost and further the Deponant sayeth not.” Lawson signed his name to say that this was a true copy of the original, and it was Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on on March 15, 1791.