Enslaved People Named: Buck, Stout, Elsey [alt: Elsy], Will, Manly, Boston, Charles, Cato, Hagar, Clarissa, Billy, Charlotte, Betty, Ben, Matty, Rose, Jack, Paris, Franklin, Lancaster, Abraham, Skip
On July 1, 1806, Morris Miller, planter of Bryan County, used as collateral on a promissory notes totalling $2646.60 to Mrs. Elizabeth Brailsford, widow of Samuel Brailsford, “all those negros following to wit. Buck, Stout, Elsey [alt: Elsy], Will, Manly, Boston, Charles, Cato, Hagar, Charissa, Billy, Charlotte, Betty, Ben, Matty, Rose, Jack, Paris, Franklin, Lancaster, Abraham and Skip and the future issue and increase of the female Slaves.” Witnessed by David Leion, Sampson Neyle. Probated in Savannah by David Leion on April 10, 1807. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on April 20, 1807.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-D 1796-1829, Book C (1807-1815), page 9-10; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-KSJD : 26 May 2024), image 269-70 of 600; microfilm #007899046, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.