Enslaved People Named: Billy, Clara, John, Mary, Hannah, Sally, Clarissa, Scyke [alt: Psyche], Dinah, Tenah, Nama [or Numa], Mariah, Edinburgh, Gilbert, Altamont, Monday, Daphne
On July 27, 1807, John Lawson, Liberty County, gifted to his children Eliza C. Webb, William C. Lawson, Francis S. Lawson, Jane Mary Clark Lawson, Hetty Alexander Lawson, Jane Rosella Lawson and Alexander James Lawson, “the following Negroes, to wit, Billy, Clara, John, Mary, Hannah, Sally, Clarissa, Scyke [alt: Psyche], Dinah, Tenah, Nama [or Numa], Mariah, Edinburgh, Gilbert, Altamont and Monday…” He specified: “the above Negroes as before mentioned to be kept together for their joint benefit untill my Son Alexander James shall attain his twenty first year or longer if they shoul ddeem it necessary or at that time the said Negroes to be euqally divided amongst them or their heirs as aforesaid at a fair valuation…the whole to remain in my possession untill my deceased.”
On July 27, 1807, John Lawson, Liberty County, gifted to his granddaughter Mary Isabelle Alexander Aggnew “one negro girl named Daphne….” Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 17, 1807.
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. 178-9. Image #255 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9DC-7?i=254)