Enslaved People Named: Jacob, Jim, Billy, Phillis
On March 28, 1809, Liberty County Sheriff Josiah Wilson sold to General Daniel Stewart for $974 “four negroes named Jacob, Jim, Billy, Phillis. Wilson had seized them from Nathan Dryer based on a writ of fieri facias obtained by virtue of a suit against Dryer in Liberty County Superior and Inferior Courts by McLeod & Ray “for the use of ? Penmian ? Shaw & Co, John Ross & Co and others. He put them up for public auction at the Riceboro courthouse on the first Tuesday in March, and Stewart was the highest bidder.
On the next day, March 29, Stewart transferred his rights to Jacob, Jim, Billy, and Phillis — and his rights to Phillis’ future offspring — to Elizabeth Dryer and her heirs.
Witnessed by J. Elliott. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on June 1, 1809.
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. 226. Image #280 (Link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3QL-J982-V?i=279)