Enslaved People Named: None
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State of Georgia, Bryan County } Whereas Zachariah M. Winkler of Savannah in said State obtained a judgement in Bryan Superior Court against Benjamin Stiles and Alexander W. Stephen, who are the trustees of Mrs. Jane Penny, for the sum of thirteen hundred and eight dollars and thirty three cents exclusive of interest and costs, and also an execution in foreclosure of mortgage upon Frugality Hall held by the said Benjamin Stiles and Alexander W. Stephen in trust for said Jane Penny and whereas the said Benjamin Stiles and Alexander W. Stephen are desirous of obtaining indulgence from the said Zachariah M. Winkler on said judgement and foreclosure, which the said Zachariah M. Winkler has agreed to grant upon one half of said debt and interest until the first day of January 1845 and on the other half till the first day of January 1846, in consideration of which, the said Jane Penny and Beacroft Penny her husband, do hereby consent and agree and do also hereby request and authorise the said Benjamin Stiles and Alexander W. Stephen, trustees under a certain deed bearing date the fifth day of May 1829 or either of them, to sell and dispose of such portion of said slaves mentioned in and conveyed by said deed, as will pay and satisfy the said demand of the said Zachariah M. Winkler, one moiety on the first day of January 1845 and the other moiety on the first day of January 1846, and for so doing this shall be there sufficient authority and evidence of consent given under our hands this 23rd day of December 1842.
Witness
Sam’l [Samuel] N. Harris
Charles A. Harden J.P.
[Signed by]
Jane Penny
B. Penny.
The undersigned trustee of Mrs. Jane Penny do hereby consent under the foregoing authority to comply with the request of said Jane Penny and Beacroft Penny and will carry the same into execution so as to meet the payments as they become due, December 23, 1843
A.W. Stephen
Benjamin Stiles
The amount payable on the 1st January 1845 is $875.67 amount to be paid 1st Jany 1846 $944.64 [total] $1819.31
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Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on March 5, 1844.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book F (1840-46), page 236-7; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSLC-C : 11 Sep 2024), image 374 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.