Bill of Sale (Baker/Baker)

On December 31, 1849, Richard F. Baker, Liberty County, sold to William E.W. Quarterman, as trustee for Baker’s wife Elizabeth Baker, for $650 “two certain negro Slaves to wit: a man Will about or nearly sixty years of age, and Dianna a woman about forty years of age, formerly the property of the estate of Michael T. Dorsey, late of Chatham County deceased. He specified that they were to be “for the benefit and behoof of Elizabeth Baker wife of the said Richard F. Baker during her natural life not subject to the debts or contracts of the present or any future husband.” If Richard F. Baker were to survive Elizabeth Baker, then the “property” was to revert to him, and this transfer was also not to prevent him for governing and controlling of “said property so far as to superintend its operations to the best advantage.”