Enslaved People Named: Sampson
On July 16, 1855, Sarah Downs, Bryan County, sold to James E. Hagin, Bulloch County, for $500 “one old negro man named Sampson aged about sixty five or seventy years of age.” Witnessed by Isaiah B. Down and Nthaniel Milton. Recorded in Bryan County Superior Court on August 8, 1855.
[NOTE: On the previous page there was a deed record dated the same day in which Sarah sold to James E. Hagin for $250 her one-sixth interest in the real estate of the late Barrett Downs of Bryan County. According to FindaGrave.com, Barrett Downs was Sarah’s husband, and Isaiah Downs was her son. Her daughter Elizabeth married James E. Hagin and her daughter Caroline married Nathaniel Milton. See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223494185/sarah-ann-downs]. See also a deed record on the following page in which Emmett Downs and Sarah Downs turned over a piece of land in Bryan County to James E. Hagin to support a promissory note they had made to Cyrus Bird.
Bryan County, Georgia, Deeds & Mortgages, v. H-J 1853-1874, Book H (1853-1860), page 198; digitized microfilm accessed through catalog, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLZ-197Y-G : 30 Mar 2025), image 104 of 682; microfilm #007899047, citing original records of Bryan County Superior Court.