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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Baker/Baker)

Enslaved Persons Named: Will, Murriah, Hannah, Affey [alt: Affee], Sue

On September 2, 1791, Stephen Baker, planter of Liberty County, and his wife Martha Baker, gifted to Amanda Baker, “a minor daughter of John Baker esquire and Mary his wife,” via her trustee Andrew Maybank Senior, of Liberty County, lots 32 and 61 in the town of Sunbury and “also the five following negro slaves namely, Will, Murriah, Hannah, Affey [alt: Affee], and Sue.” Witnessed by Geo. [George] Beaird, William Graham, John Baker Junior. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 23, 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. 429-31. Image #495-96 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-FGQK?i=495)