Enslaved People Named: Kate, Cinda, Harry, Elvira, Charles, Sylvia, Solomon, Emmie, Mars, Middy, Fanny, Chloe, Daniel
On October 1, 1862, Joseph Clay, Bryan County, created a promissory note to Mrs. Matilda Clay “for value received” for $2000. Mrs. Matilda Clay turned over the note to Habersham and Sons of Chatham County. To secure the note to Habersham and Sons, Joseph Clay used as collateral an undivided twelfth part of several tracts of land on the Ogeechee River in Bryan County, known as Richmond Rice??? Field and Tranquillity, containing 2000 acres, bounded east by the Ogeechee River, south by “lands of Patterson and McAllister,” west by lands of “Hines Stiles and Arnold,” plus the Point Place tract, about 25 acres, in Bryan County bounded east by the Ogeechee River, south and west by “lands of Arnold” and north by Bryan Causeway. Also another 1800-acre tract of pine land in Canouchee whose boundaries were not known.
Joseph Clay also used as collateral the following enslaved people, whom he apparently owned outright: “Kate, Cinda, Harry, Elvira, Charles, Sylvia, Solomon, Emmie, Mars, Middy, Fanny, Chloe and Daniel.”
Witnessed by John E. Ward. Recorded in Superior Court on November 24, 1862. This mortgage was marked as satisfied as of September 16, 1864.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-J 1853-1874, Book I (1860-1869), page 107-9; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-197K-R : 7 May 2025), image 372-3 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.