Bill of Sale (McIntosh/Alexander)

On April 10, 1807, Liberty County Sheriff Joseph Jones sold to Adam Alexander for $720 “the following negroes /to wit/ Dick, his wife Beck and five children named Fanny, Sandy, Galbo, Ginney and Nancy.” Jones had seized these individuals from Lachlan McIntosh, of Liberty County, based on a writ of fieri facias obtained against him due to Liberty County Inferior Court judgment against him in a suit by “the administrators of McCall” and a Liberty County Superior Court judgment against him in a suit by Messrs Banks and Lockwood. Jones put them up for public auction at the courthouse in Riceboro on February 3, 1807. Witnessed by John Cooper. Attached was a statement signed by James Holmes, administrator of Major Lachlan McIntosh’s estate, dated April 10, 1807, at Sunbury, saying that the “within property of seven negroes” had been mortgaged by Major McIntosh in his lifetime to Messrs Foster & Stewart for a debt of $1200 “but as the said property was sold un der Execution for Judgments obtained long before and no other property left except such as was under mortgage prior to said Judgment I do as Administrator to said Estate warrant and defend the same.” Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 1, 1807.