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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (McIntosh/Graves)

Enslaved Persons Named: Hannah

On September 27, 1791, Lachlan McIntosh, Liberty County Sheriff, sold to John Graves for 27 pounds sterling “one negroe woman slave named Hannah. Hannah had been seized by Sheriff McIntosh and sold to satisfy a writ of fieri facias against Charles B. Goff. Witnessed by Alexander Forrister [alt: Forrester], W. E. Stuart. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 14, 1792 by William E. Stuart for John Graves C.C.C.L. 

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. 477. Image #519 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FLYB?i=518)