Enslaved People Named: Edward, Billy, Harriet, Eliza, Tyra, Eve, Aleck, Isaac, Thomas, Hardy, Bob, Henry, Margaret, Amarintha, Nanny, Ben, Joe, Moses, Thomas
On April 18, 1850, Augustus Myddleton (alt: Middleton) of Chatham County, promised to pay Silas Fulton of Bryan County, $4000 in installments as the purchase price for the Tipperary tracct of land in Bryan County, 738 acres, bounded north by “lands supposed to belong to John J. Maxwell, east by lands of John J. Maxwell and William Remshart, South by Medway River and west by lands of William Remshart, plus the Bethesda tract in Chatham County, 125 acres, bounded north by Cedar Hammock, belonging to the Estate of Morel, south by “Buelah” belonging to C. ?Lamper?, east by marsh, and west by lands of the estate of Richard F. Williams.
Included in the sale were “the following negro slaves with the future increase of the females, slaves, Edward, Billy, Harriet, Eliza, Tyra [alt: Tira], Eve, Aleck [alt: Alleck, Allick], Isaac, Thomas, Hardy, Bob, Henry, Margaret, Amarintha, Nanny, Ben, Joe and Moses.
Another version of this document, dated the same day, named the enslaved people differently: Edward, Billy, Harriet, Eliza, Tyra, Eve, Alleck, Isaac and Thomas.
Witnessed by Henry M. Law. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on May 7, 1850.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book G (1846-53), page 183-6; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSKB-N : 21 Jan 2025), image 585-7 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. E-G 1830-1853, Book G (1846-53), page 190-3; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4K-VSK1-P : 21 Jan 2025), image 589-90 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.