Enslaved People Named: William
On March 12, 1852, William Law, Savannah, Chatham County, used as collateral on a promissory note of $890 to John Stoddard, Savannah, Chatham County, “an 800-acre plantation consisting of river and swamp land about the same amount of high land in Bryan County on the Ogeechee River, bounded east by the Ogeechee Causeway and the Orange Grove tract belonging to Luke Mann, south by lands formerly Waters now Codys, by Hines and by Arnold’s land, west by a tract known as Wells’s old field, and north by the Ogechee and Canouchie Rivers, known by the name of Walton, which said tract of land has heretofore to wit on the sixth of January of this present year been mortgaged to the said John Stoddard, and also one negro man slave a carpenter named William.” Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on May 21, 1852.
This deed was marked as satisfied as of July 15, 1862.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book G (1846-53), page 303-6; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSK6-6 : 23 Jan 2025), image 649-52 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.