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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Personal Property of May Roberts (1872)

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Georgia, Liberty County } To the Ordinary of Liberty County
The petition of May Roberts, being the head of a family and in behalf of said family sheweth that he applies for an exemption of personalty under the laws of Georgia, and files the following schedule of property to be exempt from levy and sale:
Schedule
50 bushels of corn, fifty bushels of rice
1100 pounds of short cotton, valued at $5 Dolls per hundred. Corn and rice valued at 75 cts per bushel
Household furniture and bedding valued at ten Dolls
The above corn, cotton and rice being raised by petitioner in the year 1872 in the County of Liberty on the place of Frederick R. Lyons and now in the possession of Petitioner on said place.
May Roberts
By his atty
Wm. B. Gaulden
Approved this 18th day of October 1872
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Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on October 24, 1872.

Liberty County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, 1870-1874, Book Q, page 185; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5BP4 : accessed 4 Apr 2024), Family History Library microfilm 008564334, “Deeds & Mortgages, v. Q-R, 1870-1877,” image 122 of 607, item 1 of 2; citing original records of Liberty County Superior Court, Georgia.