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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Possible Apprenticeship (Kerby to Easterling) (1866)

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State of Georgia, Liberty County } This May the 1st 1867

I do hereby acknowledge that I have received $25.00 twenty five dollars from Wm. [William] Easterling of said County, it being in full satisfaction to me for a child sworn to him by me in teh year 1866.

[Signed by mark]
Lamandy Kerby

Signed & Delibered in presence [of] Albert Knight

Recorded 9th September 1867
Jesse Brewer C.S.C.L.C.

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Liberty County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, 1860-1870, Book P, page 430 ; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-RSR8-9 : accessed 30 Dec 2023), Family History Library microfilm 008564333, “Deeds & Mortgages, v. O-P 1854-1870,” image 592 of 699, item 2 of 2; citing original records of Liberty County Superior Court, Georgia.