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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (McIntosh/Fulton)

Enslaved Persons Named: Sampson, Jame, Nimrod, Nero, Prince, Cloe, Bella, Bell

On January 2, 1792, George McIntosh, planter of Liberty County, sold to Samuel Fulton, also a planter of Liberty County, for 450 pounds sterling “eight Negroes men and women slaves named Sampson, Jame, Nimrod, Nero, boy Prince, Cloe, Bella, Bell, one sorrel stud horse named the Golden Fgiure, one gelding of a bay coller named Cros??? One black gelding one hundred acres of Land lying in a branch of Sapelo River in the County aforesaid,” as well as 120 head of neat cattle. Witnessed by Jas. [James] Corker, James Mathers, Winewood McIntosh. Probated by James Mathers on August 16, 1792. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 18, 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. 525-6 Image #543 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FPZY?i=542)