They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Harris/Harris)

Enslaved People Named: Moses, Hetty, Lydia, Linder

On February 26, 1814, William Thomas Harris, planter of McIntosh County, gifted to his son John Harris — to be given after his death —  “the following negroes (viz.) Moses, Hetty, Lydia, and Linder, together with her future increase; and also a tract of land on Harris’s Neck, situate by being in the County and State aforesaid, containing forty acres (one acre on which the meeting house is built only excepted).” Witnessed by James Phelps, Samuel King, William Harrison. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 8, 1814. 

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. 324. Image 467# (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J981-H?i=466)