Enslaved Persons Named: Casar [alt: Caesar], Jemmy, Toby, Will, Bram, Sampson, Casar [alt: Caesar], Jeffery, Limus, January, Ned, Dick, Isaac, Peter, Dick, Cuffee, Frank, Mingo, Captain, Prince, Jack, Joe, Scipio, Charles, Bob, Maurice, Frank, Somerset, Charles, Diana, Tenah, Bess, Mary, Venus, Diana, Nanny, Rhynah [alt: Rhinah], Harriet, Sims, Sue, Tenah, Molly, Phillis, Chloe, Bathsheba, Clarinda, Lucy, Venus, Lucy, Lydia, Chloe, Sarah, Amy, Charlotte, Mary, Hagar, Dinah, Lizette, Lydia, Hannah, Phillis, Milly
On May??, 1786, Stephen Baker, planter of St. Andrew’s Parish, South Carolina, gifted to his wife Martha via her trustee Christopher Knight, attorney of Charleston, “twenty nine male slaves and thirty three female slaves.” An attached schedule listed their names as: Casar [alt: Caesar], Jemmy, Toby, Will, Bram, Sampson, Casar (2d) [alt: Caesar], Jeffery, Limus, January, Ned, Dick, Isaac, Peter, Dick (2d), Cuffee, Frank, Mingo, Captain, Prince, Jack, Joe, Scipio, Charles, Bob, Maurice, Frank (2d), Somerset, and Charles (2d), Diana, Tenah, Bess, Mary, Venus, Diana (2d), Nanny, Rhynah, Harriet, Sims, Sue, Tenah (2d), Molly, Phillis, Chloe, Bathsheba, Clarinda, Lucy, Venus (2d), Lucy (2d), Lydia, Chloe (2d), Sarah, Amy, Charlotte, Mary, Hagar, Dinah, Lizette, Lydia, Hannah, Phillis, and Milly. Witnessed by Robert Dance, Hugh Massy Bourke.
Probated by Robert Dance in Charleston District, South Carolina, on May 22, 1786. Recorded in the State of South Carolina Secretary’s Office in the Bill of Sale Book W.W. page 134-136. On December 31 1792, Sarah Howley, widow of Liberty County, Georgia, appeared in court to say that she had witnessed the signing of this indenture. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 31, 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. 572-3. Image #570-1 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FLRC?i=569)