Enslaved People Named: Moses, Phoebe
On March 5, 1808 [SIC*], Liberty County Sheriff Joseph Jones sold at a sheriff’s sale to William Robarts “two certain Negroes…to wit, a fellow named Moses and a wench named old Phoebe.” Jones had seized Moses and Phebe from William Lambright, against whom William Robarts and James Robarts had obtained a judgment in Liberty County Inferior Court. A writ of fieri facias was issued, and Jones used it to seize them and put them up for public auction. Robarts was the highest bidder and paid $154 for Phoebe and $111 for Moses. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 5, 1806.
[NOTE: The date 1808 was written out, but the deed was recorded in April 1806, so the written date evidently should have been 1806.]
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. 126. Image #229 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J98Y-2?i=228)