Manumission (Madalone)

On February 21, 1798, at Sunbury, John Couper, planter of St. Simons Island, Glynn County, set free “a certain Mulatoe Girl named Madalone…at the special request of Mrs. Mary Cristie of Sunbury, widow…the said Madalone being now about three years of age, the daughter of a Negroe Slave named Jeanie, that the said Madalone shall be under the special Control & Guardianship of Mary Christie during the life of said Mary Christie or untill said Madalone is twenty one years of age.” If Mary Christie died before Madalone turned 21, she was to come under the guardianship and “special protection” of Susannah Stuart until Madalone became 21 “& then she is to be totally at her own free will of disposal.” If Madalone were to be “lawfully married with the consent of the Guardian before said period of twenty one years, she is then to be fully released from the control of any of the Guardians aforesaid, and not otherwise.” Witnessed by Jas. [James] Powell. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 7, 1798.