Enslaved People Named: Phoebe, Jack
On June 7, 1805, Andrew Walthour, planter of Liberty County, gifted to William Lambright, his wife Mary, and their children, out of “friendship, love and good will,” “two certain Negro Slaves named Phoebe & Jack.” Lambright was to have the “care management and direction” of them but they were to be “the right and property of, and to the sold use of” May and her children. Witnessed by Susanna Hoffman, Paul Grimball. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on July 5, 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. 135-6. Image #233-4 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J98H-T)