Enslaved People Named: Buck, Stout, Elsey [alt: Elsy], Will [or Well], Manly, Boston, Charles, Cato, Hagar, Clarissa, Charlotte, Billy, Betty, Ben, Matty, Rose, Jack, Paris, Franklin, Lancaster, Abraham, Skip
Due to a lawsuit against the estate of Samuel Miller in the federal circuit court for the District of Georgia and a judgment for $2334 pounds sterling (said to be equal to $10361.91), the District Marshal seized “the following negro slaves named Buck, Stout, Elsey [alt: Elsy], Will [or Well], Manly, Boston, Charles, Cato, Hagar, Clarissa, Charlotte, Billy, Betty, Ben, Matty, Rose, Jack, Paris, Franklin, Lancaster, Abraham and Skip.” He put them up at public auction and sold them on July 1, 1806, to the highest bidder, Morris Miller of Bryan County for $5100. Witnessed by Charles Harris, Charles Cope. Charles Harris probated the signatures in Savannah on April 10, 1807. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on April 20, 1807.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. A-D 1796-1829, Book C (1807-1815), page 8-9; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-KSJD : 26 May 2024), image 269 of 600; microfilm #007899046, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.