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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Jones/Wilkins)

Enslaved People Named: Phillis, Mary

On Mary 11, 1808, Liberty County Sheriff Josiah Wilson sold to Capt. Paul H. Wilkins for $372 “two Negroes Phillis [alt: Phyllis] & Mary, the property of the said John Jones deceased.” Wilson had seized Phillis and Mary based on a writ of fieri facias obtained as a result of a suit in Liberty County Superior and Inferior Courts against John Jones, late of Liberty County, by J. Johnson Senior, Edward Swarbrick, and others. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on [month omitted] 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. 206. Image #270 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J9D5-2?i=269)