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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Bill of Sale (Bacon/Foster)

Enslaved People Named: Mary

On March 8, 1819, Jonathan Bacon, planter of Liberty County, sold to William Anderson and Joseph Jones, planters of Liberty County, and to William Cooper, merchant of South Carolina, in trust for Mrs. Elizabeth Foster, wife of William Foster, “a certain female negro slave, named Mary, of a yellow complexion and about the age of seventeen years.” Witnessed by E.S. Kempton. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on July 17, 1820. 

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. 341-2. Image #203-4 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSRB-7?i=202&cat=292358)