Enslaved People Named: Baccus [alt: Bacchus], Flora, Amey [alt: Amy], Lucy, Venus, Didah [as seen, maybe Dinah?], Baccus, Davy, Moses, Sam, Phosiah, Hector, Rhina, Smart, Hagar, Cupit [alt: Cupid], Cuddy
On April 1, 1828, at a Sheriff’s sale at the Bryan County courthouse, Geo. [George] W. Owens bought for $3125 “seventeen negroes, viz, Baccus [alt: Bacchus], Flora, Amey [alt: Amy], Lucy, Venus, Didah [as seen, maybe Dinah?], Baccus, Davy, Moses, Sam, Phosiah, Hector, Rhina, Smart, Hagar, Cupit [alt: Cupid] and Cuddy. They had been seized from the estate of Henry Harden to satisfy a judgement from the Superior Court in favor of John J. Jenkins and others and sold at auction. Owens was the highest bidder. Witnessed by James Butler. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on May 2, 1828.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-D 1796-1829, Book D (1815-1829), page 336-7; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-K9KG : 23 Jun 2024), image 581 of 600; microfilm #007899046, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.