Enslaved People Named: Sawney, Stephen, Moses, Sam, Aaron, Lydia, Phillis, Will, Isaac, Sue
Thomas F. Bacon agreed “that the following negroes by name, & their issue, shall be the property of Mrs. Eliza Bacon & her children, after they have worked out the debts which I have bound myself to for them; that is to say, fellow Sawney, boy Stephen, fellow Moses, fellow Sam, fellow Aaron, wench Lydia, wench Phillis, boy Will, boy Isaac, girl Sue, which I promise to give up to the said Mrs. Bacon & her children, if I can pay the debts without disposing of them.” Witnessed by Peter Winn, Jacob H. Dunham. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 10, 1816. [NOTE: The original date of the deed was not recorded, but Peter Winn probated the deed before a magistrate on December 6, 1815.]
In an apparently related deed, Jacob Dunham and Peter Winn “being appointed to value the four negroes, Old Die [alt: Dye], Lydia, Harry & Charles, give it as our opinion that the following rates ought to be allowed for each, that is to say, two years back:
Old Die $200
Young wench Lydia $300
Boy Harry $300
Little boy Charles $100
$900 to be allowed to Mrs. Jonathan Bacon & her children by Mr. Thos. Bacon C.J. in discount of any charge he may have against them.
[Signed] P. Winn
Jacob H. Dunham
Agreed to by me Thos F. Bacon Feb’y 26, 1814”
This deed was also probated by Peter Winn on December 6, 1815. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 10, 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. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book H (1816-1822), p. 26-7. Image #34 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSB7-T?i=33&cat=292358)