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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Personal Property of Prime LeConte (1872)

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Georgia, Liberty County } To the Hon. the Ordinary of Liberty County
The petition of Prime LeConte being the head of a family respectfully sheweth that he desires an exemption of personalty under the laws of Georgia, and files the following schedule for the benefit of his family to be exempt from levy and sale:

One cream colored horse, valued at sixty dolls
(1300) Thirteen hundred pounds of seed short cotton valued at five dollars per hundred
Eleven head of cattle, marked spade handle in each ear, valued at ten dolls per head
One hundred bushels of corn, valued at $60 dolls
Four head of hogs, valued at $4 dolls per head
Household furniture and bedding, valued at ten dolls
Two Jersey wagons valued at $20 dolls each
100 bushels of rice, valued at $100 dolls
Poultry valued at ten dolls

The corn, cotton and rice, above being the crop raised by petitioner and now in his possession on the Syphax Plantation of Joseph LeConte in said County, the present year 1872.
Prime LeConte [or Le Conte]
By his atty
Wm. B. Gaulden
Approved this the 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 183-4; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5935-R : accessed 4 Apr 2024), Family History Library microfilm 008564334, “Deeds & Mortgages, v. Q-R, 1870-1877,” image 121-2 of 607, item 1 of 2; citing original records of Liberty County Superior Court, Georgia.