Enslaved People Named: Amy
On January 25, 1842, at Macon, Bibb County, Thomas H. Harden, Bibb County, sold to Eliza C. Clay, Bryan County, for 700 “a certain negro woman slave named Amy and her infant child, and the future issue and increase of said slaves.” Witnessed by Edw. [Edward] ? Tracy. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on February 7, 1842.
Appended to this deed record was another one, created in Bryan County, noting that there was concern that Thomas H. Harden did not have at the time of the sale the power to make a “perfect title” to “said negroes.” Matilda A. Harden said that, if that was the case, she did have the power and so ratified and confirmed what he had done. Witnessed by Daniel M. Harden and Charles A. Harden, J.P. of Bryan County.
[NOTE: By use of the plural when referring to their “future increase,” it appears that Amy’s unnamed infant child was a girl.]
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book F (1840-46), page 83-4; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSLJ-V : 9 Sep 2024), image 291-2 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.