Enslaved People Named: Hamlett, Jupiter, Hannah, little Jupiter, Sary, Molly, Brutus, Carey, Aram, Lydia
On April 7, 1808, Liberty County Sheriff Josiah Wilson sold “the eight following Negroes named Hamlett, Jupiter, Hannah, little Jupiter, Sary, Molly, Brutus and Carey” to Joseph Law for $930. Wilson had seized these enslaved individuals based on a writ of fieri facias obtained when John Bolton of Chatham County foreclosed on a mortgage for $2052.16 in which John Jones had used the eight people and two others, Aram and Lydia, as collateral, as recorded in Liberty County Superior Court Clerk’s Office Book E, pages 257-8. Wilson put them up for public auction at the Riceborough Courthouse between 10 and 2 o’clock on April 5, 1808.
On April 9, 1808,, Joseph Law sold these same people to Joseph Jones for $930.
Both deeds recorded on June 6, 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. 209. Image #271 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J963-4?i=270)