Enslaved People Named: April
On November 12, 1807, Liberty County Sheriff Joseph Jones sold “a certain Negroe fellow named April, the property of said Charles Dicks,” to Moses Way for $425 Jones had seized April from Dicks based on a writ of fieri facias obtained based on suits by Grey Robarts in Liberty County Superior Court and Edwin Lewis and William Robarts in Bryan County Superior Court. He put April up for public auction at the Riceborough courthouse on Wednesday, November 11, 1807 “being a postponed sale from Tuesday the 3d November 1807. Way was the highest bidder. Witnessed by William Anderson. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 26, 1808.
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. 200. Image #265 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9ZL-B?i=264)