Enslaved People Named: Sam (Driver), Tenah, Sally, Harriet, Sam, January, Yarrow, Dick (Ebo), Tenah (Ebo), August, Flora (old), Balaam (old), Betty (old), Primus, Paul, Billy (angole), Lucy, Ceasar [alt: Caesar], Adam, June, Toby, Amy, Balaam, an infant, Polly, Nancy, Rebecca
On May 16, 1808, Joseph Maxwell, “practitioner of Physic” in the City of Savannah, used as collateral on a promissory note of $7604.10 to James Hamilton, “at present of St. Simons in the State aforesaid Planter,” “the following Slaves, and Tract of Land, to wit, Sam (Driver), Tenah, Sally with her children, Harriet & Sam, January, Yarrow, Dick (Ebo), Tenah (Ebo), August, Flora (old), Balaam (old), Betty (old), Primus Paul, Billy (angole), Lucy, Ceasar [alt: Caesar], Adam, June, Toby, Amy with her children, Balaam & an infant, Polly, Nancy, & Rebecca with their future issue and increase and also a tract of land being an undivided half of a tract of land at Midway in the County of Liberty, containing in the whole four hundred acres more or less, part of which tract was orginally granted to Andrew Collins” on May 15, 1756 and then sold to the late James Maxwell, adjoining land belonging to James Cochran, Audley Maxwell Esqr. And the Rev’d ? Gildersleeves “in the settlment and County aforesaid.” Witnessed by Charles Harris, “mayor of the City of Savannah,” and G. Woodruff. Recorded in Book B.B. of Chatham County, page 171, on May 24, 1808. Recorded in the Glynn County Clerk’s office in Book F, Pages 41-43, on July 12, 1808. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 9, 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. 7-8. Image #304-5 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J98H-9?i=303&cat=292358)