Enslaved People Named: Tenah, little Dick
On April 22, 1806, Jonathan Bacon, Liberty County, sold to James James for $500 “a Negro wench named Tenah and her Child named little Dick formerly the wife of Jim Goulding…”
Written below this deed: “I relinquish all right and title to the within named Wench named Tenah and her Child named Dick. Witness my hand this 2nd May 1806. [Signed] Jas. James”
Witnessed by Thomas Mell. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 3, 1806.
Source: Family Search.org. Liberty County Superior Court “Deeds and mortgages, 1777-1920; general index to deeds and mortgages, 1777-1958,” Film: Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1801-1816,” Record Book F (1804-1809), p. 131. Image #231 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J984-F?i=230)