They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Alexander/Peacock)

Enslaved People Named: John

On April 28, 1810, Adam Alexander, “practitioner of physic” in Liberty County, gifted to “my friend Thomas Alexander Peacock and Mary the wife of the said Thomas and the issue of them” “one certain Negro Slave named John.” Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 4, 1810. 

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 G (1809-1816), p. 76-7. Image #338 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J98R-P?cat=292358)