Enslaved People Named: Peter
On November 7, 1815, Liberty County James Lambright, sold to Reverend Charles O. Screven for $560 “a certain negro man slave, the property of the said Elias Cassels (now deceased)…whose name is Peter…” Lambright had seized Peter from Cassels based on a writ of fieri facias obtained through a lawsuit by the executor of Thomas Lanchester’s estate, Curtis Bolton & Co., the executor of Abner Porter’s estate, and the administrator of George Foster’s estate against Elias Cassels in Liberty County Superior Court, and by Bolling Hall in Baldwin County Superior Court. Sheriff Lambright put Peter up for public auction on November 7, 1815, at the Liberty County courthouse, and Screven was the highest bidder. Witnessed by Thomas F. Bacon. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 20, 1816.
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. 399-400. Image #505-6 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J96D-F?i=505)