Enslaved People Named: Dick, Beck, Fanny, Sandy, Galbo, Carolina, Clarissa
On September 24, 1804, Lachlan McIntosh of Liberty County made an agreement to mortgage a number of “negro slaves” as surety for repayment of a debt of $1350. In 1801, John Jones had given McIntosh his promissory notes for the amount, and McIntosh had passed the notes to “William Smith or Smith and Sons or to Smith Sons and Anderson or to some or one of them or one of that firm merchants of Savannah.” They were suing in Inferior Court for nonpayment of the debts. Jones had evidently paid McIntosh, but McIntosh had not passed the money to the creditors, thus the debt was said to be “truly and litterally the debt of Lachlan McIntosh.”
To secure Jones against the threat of suit, McIntosh authorized Alexander Forrester, attorney at law, to mortgage “the following negro slaves (to wit) Dick Beck his wife and children Fanny Sandy Galbo and one other infant being her four children and also Caroline and her daughter Clarissa.” Witnessed by Adam Alexander. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on November 7, 1804.
Written on the deed was “Alexander Forrester Esqr is hereby directed to enter full satisfaction on the within 22nd March 1805. [Signed] John Jones. Satisfaction was recorded by Forrester on May 6, 1805.
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. E-G 1801-1816,” Record Book F (1804-1809), p. 34. Image #181 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9DZ-1?i=180)