Enslaved People Named: Jiny, Phoebe, Lizzy, Harriet, Jonas, Amanda, Peter, April, Susannah, Louisa, Scipio, Ellen, Charley, Polly, Charles, Peggy, Hannah, Morris, Sukey, Morris, Sarah, Charles
On January 6, 1852, William Law, Savannah, Chatham County, used as collateral on a promissory note to John Stoddard, Savannah, Chatham County, for $$5956.04 “the following twenty two negro slaves to wit, Jiny, Phoebe [alt: Phebe], Lizzy, Harriet, Jonas, Amanda, Peter, April, Susannah, Louisa, Scipio, Ellen, Charley, Polly, Charles, Peggy, Hannah, Morris, Sukey, Morris, Sarah and Charles being the negroes this day purchased by the said Wm. Law at public sale at Darien from the Executors and trustees under the will of the late John David Mongin together with the future issue and increase of the said female slaves.”
Included in the collateral (and in the purchase) was the Walton plantation, 800 acres of rice and swamp land plus about the same amount of high land, on the Great Ogeechee and Canouchie Rivers in Bryan County, bounded east by the Ogechee Causeway, south by lands of Luke Mann, lands of Waters formerly now by ?Codys?, lands of John Hines and Arnold, west by lands of Arnold and “what is known as the tract containing Well’s old field, and north by the Ogechee and Canouchie Rivers. The plantation was comprised of the four tracts formerly known as the Holmes tract called Walton, the Laurel Hill tract, the Sandy Hill tract, and the White House tract all of which had been purchased by William Law and united under the name Walton.
Witnessed by John M B Lovell. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on March 15, 1852.
This record was marked as satisfied and cancelled as of April 13, 1858.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book G (1846-53), page 277-80; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSKR-S : 22 Jan 2025), image 636-8 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.