Enslaved People Named: Milly, Stephen, Moses
On January 1, 1849, in Bryan County, Henry M. McGillis, acknowledged receipt from James Shuman, guardian of the orphans of T.R. McGillis “a negro girl named Milly valued at three hundred dollars and the sum of four hundred and seventeen dollars which said negro Milly and money are in full of my part of the negro property and hire of the same agreeable to a division made by commissioners appointed to divide said property.
On April 6, 1849, Mary A. McGillis acknowledged receipt from James Shuman, guardian of the orphans of T.R. McGillis “my part of said estate in full of all demands which consists of a negro man named Stephen and fifty dollars and 35 cents.”
On April 6, 1849, Providince Lanier acknowledged receipt from James Shuman, guardian of the orphans of T.R. McGillis “negro man Moses and one hundred dollars in part payment of my part of said estate.”
On January 25, 1851, Providence Lanier, through Henry McGillis, acknowledged receipt from James Shuman, administrator of the estate of Lewis Lanier, $100 as part of her share “drawn at a division of T.R. McGillis’s estate the first day of January 1849.”
[NOTE: her name was spelled Providince in one record, and Providence in another.]
The above documents were all recorded together in Bryan County Superior Court on December 29, 1852.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book G (1846-53), page 338; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSK8-B : 23 Jan 2025), image 668 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.