Enslaved People Named: Glasgo, Mars
On August 7, 1832, Alexander M. Sanford purchased “a negro man by the name of Glasgo [alt: Glasgow]” for $305 as the highest bidder at a Sheriff’s sale at the Bryan County Court House. Glasgo had been seized from Thomas B. Baker based on a judgment against him in favor of Sanford by the Bryan County Superior Court.
On the same day, at the same sale, Sanford purchased “a negro man slave named Mars” for $470, sold apparently based on the same judgment against Thomas B. Baker.
Both deeds itnessed by Wm. [William] Hill, James Butler. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on January 8, 1833.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book E (1830-40), page 95-6; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSGB-F : 9 Jul 2024), image 55 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.