Enslaved People Named: Phillis [alt: Phyllis] Elsy, Tenah, Nancy, Paris, Sampson
On January 3, 1809, Hector Ard, Liberty County, gifted to his wife Martha Ard and their current and future children, via her trustees Thomas Ard, Samuel Jones, and John Osgood, “all that and every his estate possessed, or that hereafter he may be possessed of real or personal, possessed of as follows, that is to say, six negro slaves named Phillis [alt: Phyllis] Elsy, Tenah, Nancy, Paris & Sampson with the issue and increase of the females. Also two hundred head of Stock Cattle / more or less / a horse and mare, a stock of sheep and stock of hogs with increase, together with his household furniture, kitchen furniture, bedding and all and every paraphernalia to household keeping belonging or appertaining.” He also added any estate that he might become possessed of later. Witnessed by Nathan Church, James C. Phelps. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on January 27, 1809.
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. 223-4. Image #278-9 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J98D-K?i=277)