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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty and Bryan Counties, Georgia

manumissions

Manumission (Sue)

Enslaved People Named: Sue On May 23, 1796, John Dollar, a Liberty County Justice of the Peace, recorded that Mrs. Cathrine Collins of Sunday, Liberty

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Manumission (Hetty)

Enslaved People Named: Hetty On April 30, 1810, James Smith purchased the freedom of Hetty, a 22-year-old “mulatto” enslaved girl who Smith had gifted to

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Manumission (Abby)

Enslaved People Named: Abby On March 2, 1801, in Bryan County, James M. Stuart, Bryan County, manumitted “my Negro woman by name Abby, formerly the

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Manumission (Pender)

Enslaved People Named: Pender On May 8, 1797, John Evans, Liberty County, “out of my own free will that I have for my Negroe wench

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Manumission (Dublin)

Enslaved People Named: Dublin On March 13, 1796, John Evans, Liberty County, stated that “my negro fellow by the name of Dublin is to serve

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Manumission (Jim)

Enslaved People Named: Jim [Begin transcription] Received July 25th 1799 of Jim of Color full satisfaction by work performed by him at different times for

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Manumission (Steuart)

Enslaved People Named: Eleanorah, Haratia, Carolinus, Eletitia On February 25, 1799, James M. Steuart of Liberty County manumitted and set free “my four following Slaves

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Manumission (Madalone)

Enslaved People Named: Madalone On February 21, 1798, at Sunbury, John Couper, planter of St. Simons Island, Glynn County, set free “a certain Mulatoe Girl

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Manumission (Myrtiller)

Enslaved Persons Named: Myrtiller On June 4, 1787, Philip Andrew Noble Delegal, planter of Liberty County, manumitted Myrtiller [alt: Myrtilla], “a negroe woman” after she

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Manumission (Jack)

Enslaved Persons Named: Jack On July 22, 1790, it was registered in Liberty County Superior Court that on March 27, 1779, Reverend John Forbes, Alexander

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Manumission (Peter Gilbert)

Enslaved Persons Named: Peter Gilbert On November 30, 1788, Peter Augustus Bishop, merchant of Sunbury, “in consideration of the Good will and Regard which I

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Manumission (Felicity)

Enslaved Persons Named: Felicity On November 30, 1788, Peter Augustus Bishop, merchant of Sunbury, “out of the good-will, and Regard which I have and do

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Manumission (Mingo)

Enslaved Persons Named: Mingo On 21 April 1788, Thomas Baker of Liberty County signed his name to the following deed: “Whereas Mr. John Linus late

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Manumission (Nanny)

Enslaved Persons Named: Nanny On November 25, 1793, James Wilson and Andrew Walthour signed a notification certifying that “the bearer Nanny, lately the property of

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Manumission (Turone)

Enslaved Persons Named: Turone On November 25, 1793, James Wilson and Andrew Walthour signed a notification certifying that “the bearer Turone, lately the property of

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Manumission (Phillis)

Enslaved Persons Named: Phillis On December 16, 1793, Joseph Gibbons, son of William Gibbons, late of “Sharon of the County of Chatham,” freed “a Negroe

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Manumission (Tom)

Enslaved Persons Named: Tom The following deeds were recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on February 9, 1793: “I do hereby certify that the bearer

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Manumission (Boston)

Transcribed from “Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly”: “(No. 534.)An Act to manumit a negro man slave, named Boston, the property of E.B. Way,

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