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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Hardy/Cecil)

Enslaved Persons Named: Guy

On August 15, 1791, Liberty County Sheriff Lachlan McIntosh, sold to Leonard Cecil, merchant of Chatham County, for 30 pounds sterling “a certain negro man Slave named Guy.” Guy had been the property of John Hardy, deceased, and a writ of fieri facias had been obtained against the administrators of his estate by William Woodward and William Scott, which caused Sheriff McIntosh to seize Guy and put him up for sale. Witnessed by Alexander Forrester. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 3, 1792. 

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. 490. Image #526 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FG9C?i=525)