Enslaved People Named: George, Phoebe [alt: Phebe], Derry, Deliah, Sarah, Prince, Ben, Sandy, Belah [alt: Bella], Sarah, Judy, Judge, Juno, Moses, Hester, Tiller, Casar [alt: Caesar, Ceasar], John, Comfort, Isaac, Salley, Amelia, Charles, Cresa [alt: Cretia], Sam, Charlotte, Lonon [alt: Lonnon, London], Tiria, Diana, Comiger, Abraham, Jane, Sam
On January 7, 1843, William Patterson, Savannah, sold to James Mongin Smith, “trustee under the will of John David Mongin”, for $26,000 “the following negro slaves being thirty three in number, George, Phoebe [alt: Phebe], Derry, Deliah, Sarah, Prince, Ben, Sandy, Belah [alt: Bella], Sarah, Judy, Judge, Juno, Moses, Hester, Tiller, Casar [alt: Caesar, Ceasar], John, Comfort, Isaac, Salley, Amelia, Charles, Cresa [alt: Cretia], Sam, Charlotte, Lonon [alt: Lonnon, London], Tiria, Diana, Comiger, Abraham, Jane, Sam.”
Included in the sale was the following land: a 150-acre rice plantation on the Ogeechee River in Chatham County, originally purchased in pieces (43 acres from Beacroft [Beecroft] Penney, 75 acres from A.W. Stephen, and 32 acres from A.W. Stephen and Benjamin Stiles, trustees for B. Penney and wife]; and a 300-acre property in Bryan County known as Sterling Bluff, bounded by land of William Patterson, A.W. Stephen and Joseph Stiles.
Witnessed by G.G. Bulloch. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on March 22, 1842.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book F (1840-46), page 189-91; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSL7-G : 10 Sep 2024), image 349-50 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.