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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Findley/Findley)

Enslaved People Named: John

On January 31, 1807, John Cater Findley gifted to his wife Margaret “a Negro fellow John by name” with eight head of blackhorned cattle, all his house furniture, and all his personal estate. Witnessed by John Ashmore, Sarah Ashmore. The Ashmores probated this deed on March 1, 1808. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 17, 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. 196. Image #264 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9DY-2?i=263)