Enslaved People Named: Leah, Peggy, Robbin, Bella
On April 3, 1795, Liberty County Sheriff Henry Wood sold to Colonel Daniel Steuart [alt: Stewart] for 34 pounds “the following Negroe Slaves, to wit Leah a wench, Peggy a Girl, Robbin a Boy, and Bella a Girl.” Sheriff Wood had seized these individuals based on a writ of fieri facias issued due to a lawsuit by Sawyer & Morell against Thomas Gibbons Junior, acting executor of Joseph Fox, deceased.” They were said to be the property of Joseph Fox. Wood put them up for public auction and Stewart was the highest bidder. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on April 12, 1797.
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. C-D 1793-1801,” Record Book DD (1795-1798), p. 101. Image #240 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5PC7?i=239)