Enslaved People Named: John, Rose, Paul
On May 30, 1844, Elizabeth Netherclift, gifted to her grandchildren “the following named negro slaves, to wit, John aged about twenty one years, Rose aged about nineteen years, and Paul aged about twelve years.” Elizabeth Netherclift noted that in her last will and testament, dated July 8, 1835, as a widow of Bryan County had in the second item left to her son John Fife Maxwell 1/3 of her entire property. She now wished to revoke that bequest and instead to give to his children, then living or to be born, “so much of my said property as I deem a fair equivalent for the said devise and bequest,” naming John, Rose and Paul and giving them to Raymond Harris as their trustee for the benefit of her grandchildren Henry Kollock Burroughs Maxwell, Stephen Jackson Maxwell, or any other children John F. Maxwell might have in the future. If any of the children died before marriage or majority, their share was to be held for the survivors. John, Rose, and Paul were not to be subject to any debts of John F. Maxwell.
Elizabeth Netherclift signed by mark.
Witnessed by William L. Baker. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on June 12, 1844.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book F (1840-46), page 262-4; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSLQ-J : 15 Sep 2024), image 389-90 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.