Deed of Gift (Kewshaw/Kershaw)

On August 7, 1821, George Kershaw, planter of Liberty County, gifted to his wife Araminta Kershaw, via her trustee Alexander Martin, planter of Liberty County, “the following negroes, being, at this time, my property, and in my possession, namely, Old Miley, Sampson and John, one feather bed, bedstead, curtains and bed clothes belonging to said bed, one trunk, all the wearing apparel of my said wife; also all my right and title to my negro woman slave Minder [alt: Minda], who is now hired out to William H. Cassels, of said county, the term of which hire will expire on the fifth day of January next, the said Minder to be then delivered to the said Alexander Martin, but the money arising from the hire of the said Minder to the said William H. Cassels, to be applied to my own use.” At Araminta’s death, the above property was to go to his daughter, Ann Martha Kershaw. Witnessed by Joseph Norman, Nathan Holbrook, Richard F. Baker, James Stacy. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on August 30, 1821.