Enslaved People Named: Peg
On April 12, 1808, William Whitehead, Burke County, sold to Moses Way for $320 “a certain Negro wench by the name of Peg, formerly the proeprty of Gideon Dowse Jun’r and which by a Division of his Estate became vested in me in right of my wife…” WItnessed by Nathan Dryer. 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. 198. Image #265 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9ZL-B?i=264)