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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Deed of Gift (Yonge/Dunwody)

Enslaved People Named: Phillis

On March 1, 1816, in Chatham County, Christiana Yonge, of Savannah, gifted to Jane Dunwody “a certain negro woman slave named Phillis [alt: Phyllis].” Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on May 21, 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. 15. Image #28 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSBW-C?i=27&cat=292358)