They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Irvine/Baker)

Enslaved Persons Named: Pompey, Phillis

On June 6, 1791, Charles Irvine, Liberty County, sold to Artemas Baker, planter and executor of Elizabeth Powell, for 100 pounds sterling “two Negroe Slaves named Pompey and Phillis” in trust for John Robert and Ann Darling Irving. Witnessed by Staff’d [Stafford] Somersall, John Maxwell. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on November 1, 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. 423. Image #492 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FP23?i=491)