Enslaved Persons Named: Bess
On July 15, 1791, Charles Barnett Goff, mariner of Liberty County, sold to John Baker Junior “or the younger” for 40 pounds sterling “a Young Negroe Wench named Bess, now in his possession.” Witnessed by William Graves. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on July 19, 1791.
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. 403. Image #482 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FLRF?i=481https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FLRF?i=481)