Enslaved People Named: Larry, Jacob, Sam, Flora [?], Leah, Patty, Phillis [alt: Phyllis], Anne, Little Sambo, Adam, Moses, Johnny, Chloe, Catharine, Isaac, Die [alt: Dye]
On February 6, 1837, White E. Harden, Chatham County, sold for $50 [essentially gifted] to Thomas B. Baker, Bryan County, in trust for his wife Ann E. Harden “the following negro slaves to wit Larry, Jacob, Sam, Flora [?], Leah, Patty, Phillis [alt: Phyllis], Anne, Little Sambo, Adam, Moses, Johnny, Chloe, Catharine, Isaac and Die [alt: Dye]. Included in this transaction was a 500-acre tract of land in Bryan County called the Mount tract. The trust was for Ann E. Harden’s life, and after her death to any children she had by White E. Harden as tenants in common, not as joint tenants. Witnessed by John E. Ward, John M.B. Harden. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on February 6, 1837.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book E (1830-40), page 233-4; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSGD-Y : 22 Jul 2024), image 136 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.