Enslaved People Named: Rachel, Hetty
On July 18, 1820, at Sunbury, Mary C. Wilkins, with the consent of her husband Samuel Wilkins, gifted to her daughter, Ann Elizabeth Wilkins, via her trustees Joseph Jones Senior and James S. Wilkins, all of Liberty County, “my two yellow female slaves, named Rachel and Hetty, the first aged sixteen years, and the second aged five years.” Witnessed by N.A. Adams, V.S. Mathews. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 5, 1822.
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. 434-5. Image #250 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS42-SSRP-1?i=249&cat=292358)