Bill of Sale (Sandiford/Corker)

On March 1, 1797, Audley Sandiford and his wife Jemima Sandiford sold for $300 to Stephen Corker, planter of Liberty County, “a certain Negro woman named Nancy.” Witnessed by Edward Corker, Susannah Taylor. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 13, 1797. 

Appended to this deed was a statement dated March 1, 1797 by Audley Sandiford saying that at the time he married Miss Jemima Taylor, now his wife, he had gifted her “a certain negro woman named Nancy & her two children Ceasar [alt: Caesar] & Billy which said wench has since had one other child called Tenah which child by a special clause mentioned in said deed became also the property of said Jemima together with all the property that should descend to her the said Jemima from her father’s estate or any other way.” He noted that the deed [of gift] was recorded in Liberty County Clerk’s Office Book B pages 520-521 on August 9, 1792, the marriage contract having the date June 29, 1792. He added that he was a minor at that time, without a guardian, which had made the contract “not so authentic as I could wish.” Therefore, now being of full age, he confirmed the contract as it pertained to Nancy’s three children and any property Jemima might inherit from her father’s estate. He also appointed his friend Stephen Corker as his trustee “in whose hands I do by these presents leave the abovesaid three negroes Ceaser Billy & Tenah.” Witnessed by John Cole, Peter Hoffmire. Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on March 13, 1797.