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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Release (Gildersleeve/White)

Enslaved People Named: Sambo, Sibby, Bess, little Dick, Toney

On April 9, 1811, in Chatham County, Cyrus Gildersleeve released his mortgage on “the following negroes to wit Sambo, Sibby, Bess, little Dick and Toney. He had held the mortgage due to a promissory note to him by James white, “then of Liberty County.” He acknowledged full satisfaction of the debt. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 17, 1811. 

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. 124. Image #363 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J963-1?i=362&cat=292358)