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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Demere/Bond)

Enslaved People Named: Daphne

On January 27, 1801, Mary Demere, relict of the late Major Raymond Demere of Bryan County, gifted to her sister Mrs. Ann Bond, wife of Mr. Venable Bond, planter of the same county, “a Negroe woman named Daphne and her issue male and female.” Witnessed by Mary Maxwell, Rebecca Vanbracket [or Vanbrachet]. 

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. 124. Image #228 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9ZG-B?i=227)