Enslaved People Named: Cato
On January 30, 1816, Liberty County Sheriff James Lambright sold to Audley Maxwell for $455 “the following negro man slave, named Cato, as the preperty of the Estate of the said James M. Stuart.” The Sheriff had seized Cato from the estate based on a writ obtained through a lawsuit by Samuel Lewis, administrator of the Foster estate and surviving co-partner, against William Thompson and Susannah Thompson, administors of the James M. Stuart estate. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 24, 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. H-I 1816-1831,” Record Book H (1816-1822), p. 54-5. Image #48 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSYY-L?i=47&cat=292358)