Enslaved People Named: Pender, Venus, Dinah, Maria, Harry, Minty, Chloe, Mars, Tom, Lewis, William
On October 3, 1808, Alexander Netherclift, Bryan County, created a trust for the maintenance of his wife Mary and any children she would have by him in the future. George M. Waters, Bryan County, was named as trustee, and the trust included certain named enslaved people and a lot he owned in the town of Hardwicke in Bryan County. The enslaved people were named as “Pender, Venus, Dinah, Maria, Harry, Minty, Chloe, Mars, Tom, Lewis & William,” and the lot was said to containing Netherclift’s dwelling house and to have formerly been the property of Michael Burke, bought at a Sheriff’s sale. [Note: the list of names of the enslaved people was repeated four times in this record, and each time their names were spelled identically except that once Chloe’s name was misspelled Chole.] If no children survived Mary, Netherclift was to come to possess the enslaved people and the lot upon her death. Witnessed by Josiah Goodson and John Pray, J.I.C.
This deed record was accompanied by one showing the purchase of the Hardwicke lot by Alexander Netherclift at a Sheriff’s sale.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-D 1796-1829, Book C (1807-1815), page 70-1; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-KSRB : 26 May 2024), image 300-1 of 600; microfilm #007899046, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.