Enslaved People Named: Nancy, Syke, Pussy, Hercules, Frank, Hector, Fanny
On August 19, 1815, William F. Ladson, planter of Liberty County, used as collateral on a promissory note for $1500 to Charles W. Rogers, physician of Liberty County, “the following negroes; viz. Nancy and her three children, viz. Syke, Pussy & Hercules, together with Frank, Hector & Fanny,” along with “the plantation which I now occupy, and known by the name of Novar [seen also as Navarre],” bounded northwest by John Kell and the public road leading to Fort Barrington, north and northeast by land formerly belonging to William Quarterman, south and southeast by John Elliott, and southwest by John E. LeConte, containing about 360 acres. Witnessed by John Kell, Hiland Hulburd. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 25, 1815.
[Note: Marked on this deed was “mortgage satisfied 23d Dec’r 1817”]
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. 382-3. Image #497 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J966-B?i=496)