Location: Liberty County, Georgia
Deceased: Dickinson, Stephen (was spelled Dickison in one document, first name also spelled Steven)
Date Sworn: 1783-05-13
Appraisers: John Lawson Sen’r (Senior), Adam Alexander; Stafford Somarsall.
Estate Administrator: Mrs. Jane Mahan
Court Officer:
Date Recorded: not listed
Recording Official: not listed
Total Value of Property Appraised: 139 pounds, 13 shillings
Value of enslaved persons: 110 pounds
Comments: This inventory found in loose documents, not in probate book. Name was spelled Dickinson, Dickeson, Dickison, and Dickenson in various documents; first name as Steven and Stephen. It appeared that Mrs. Jane Mahan was the original administratrix when the estate was inventoried, then John Kell took over in 1819 (as recorded in Book H, pages 263-264) and published a notice in the Darien Gazette saying the estate was to be sold for the benefit of the heirs. The original inventory was ordered on May 13, 1783, to be performed by John Lawson, Adam Alexander and Stafford Sommersall (as spelled), with administratrix Mrs. Jane Mahan.
Values expressed in pounds, not dollars.
“Memorandum. Jem is in the hands of Mr. Shaw, considered by him as apertaining to the Estate of Thomas Parkins. A fellow Tom, on St. Johns in East Florida, and a fellow Jacob, in South Carolina, captured by the American gallies.”
| Enslaved Person Named | Value | Description |
| Joe | 5 | “an old Negroe fellow” |
| Laddy | 25 | “an old Negroe wench”; [alt: Lady] |
| Jem | 50 | “a young fellow” |
| Joe | 30 | “an old fellow”; “Little Joe” |
Find the digitized original at: Loose Papers in folders by surname, Liberty County, Georgia, Probate Court; digitized images with typewritten indexes, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9Q4-CKYQ : accessed 30 Aug 2026), “Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990 -> Liberty ->
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