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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Ratcliff/Ratcliff)

Enslaved People Named: Barbary

On July 18, 1806, John Ratcliff, Liberty County, gifted to his son James Ratcliff, a minor, “a negroe slave girl by the name of Barbary. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on December 19, 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 G (1809-1816), p. 45. Image #322 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J98R-9?i=321&cat=292358)