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

Bryan Doughtery (or Brian Dottery) – Liberty County Estate Inventory

Location: Liberty County, Georgia
Deceased: Doughtery, Bryan (or Dottery, Brian)
Date Sworn: 1785-02-03
Appraisers: Phillip Good, James Carter, Thos. Oswald
Estate Administrator: Joseph Oswald
Court Officer: Thomas Baker
Date Recorded: unknown (see comments)
Recording Official: unknown (see comments)
Total Value of Property Appraised: not given
Value of enslaved persons: not given
Comments: Name spelled both ways in the documents. Also spelled as Daugtry in one document.

The inventory only had “a Fellow Wench & three Children” [no names given]. No value was given.

Find the digitized original at: Loose Papers in folders by surname, Liberty County, Georgia, Probate Court; digitized images with typewritten indexes, FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q4-CVWG : accessed 7 Jun 2026), “Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990 -> Liberty -> Estate records 1775-1892 Busby, Bartholomew – Butler, Henry Dean, Ernest – Dunham, Thomas , image 655-657.