Enslaved People Named: Rachael [alt: Rachel], Molly, Charity, Grace, Davy, Abraham, Joshua, Charlotte
On December 22, 1853, Sarah Eliza Mann, “spinster” of Bryan County, and Lafayette Stewart Quarterman, of Liberty County, entered into a marriage contract with Luke Mann, Bryan County, and Lachlan McIntosh, McIntosh County, as her trustees. The “considerable property both real and personal” that Sarah was then possessed of and might come to possess in the future was put into trust for her. The property named in the contract was a tract of land she was living on, called Palermo, and “the following eight negro slaves to wit Rachael [alt: Rachel], Molly, Charity, Grace, Davy, Abraham, Joshua & Charlotte together with the future issue and increase of the female slaves.” At her death, all the trust property was to pass to any living children of hers, but if she were to die without living children, her property would be held in trust for her husband during his lifetime, and on his death to go to Margaret E. White. Witnessed by Charles ? [H or W?] Starr, Jno. [John] P. Hines, Thos. [Thomas] B. Butler. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on May 9, 1854.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-J 1853-1874, Book H (1853-1860), page 61-3; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-197C-9 : 30 Jan 2025), image 39-40 of 715; microfilm #008188937, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.