Enslaved People Named: Moses
On June 3, 1806, William Robarts, Liberty County, gifted to “my friend” William Lambright, Lambright’s wife Mary and their children “One Negro man Slave named Moses…” Lambright was to have the care, management and direction of the “said Slave” but he was to be the property of Mary and “her issue,” along with all the profits from his labour and services. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 13, 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. 132. Image #232 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9DJ-S?i=231)