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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Personal Property of William LeConte (1872)

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State of Georgia, Liberty County } Schedule of personalty of William LeConte p c, the head of a family, filed in the Ordinary’s office of said county this 4th day of October 1872, by Amo Harris p c agent of said LeConte, for exemption under the Homestead laws of this state, to wit:
One hundred & eighty bu corn @ 1.00 pr bu $180.00
Forty bus rice @ 1.00 pr bu $40.00
Growing crop of cane & syrup from same 25.00
Four hundred lbs cotton in seed short cotton @ 04 pr lb 16.00
Twenty bushels peas @ 1.00 20.00
Forty bushels potatoes @ .50 20.00
Household & kitchen furniture val at 40.00
One cow black color, white head val at 20.00
One hog black with whie bit val at 5.00
[Total] $366.00
[Signed]
William LeConte
[By] Amos Harris [signed by mark]
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Approved on October 18, 1872. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on October 24, 1872
Liberty County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, 1870-1874, Book Q, page 186-7; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QP-5157 : accessed 4 Apr 2024), Family History Library microfilm 008564334, “Deeds & Mortgages, v. Q-R, 1870-1877,” image 123 of 607, item 1 of 2; citing original records of Liberty County Superior Court, Georgia.