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African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

Liberty County Will – Joseph Bacon

Will Summary:

Testator: Joseph Bacon, planter, Liberty County, State of Georgia

Bequests:

  • To daughter Sarah S. Bacon “the negro girl called Cinda, together with the cattle in her mark, which is a split and under sawset in one ear, and upper seven in the other, with their future issue and increase.”

  • To daughter Susan A. Bacon “the negro woman called Nanny, with her two children Prince and Dick, together with the cattle in her mark, which is a split in one ear, and upper seven and under sawset in the other, together with their future issue and increase.”

  • To daughter Eliza S. Bacon “the negro girl Hannah, together with the cattle in her mark, which is a split and upper sawset in one ear, and upper seven in the other, together with their future issue and increase.”

  • To David A. Miller, when he turns 22 and not before, “the boy Cudjoe and girl Harriet.”

  • Balance of property to be equally divided between his three daughters.

Executors: Friends Richard S. Baker, Moses W. Way, daughter Sarah S. Bacon.

Date signed: 24 November 1829

Witnesses: Henry W. Bacon, Richard S. Baker, Thomas G. Way

Probated by Henry W. Bacon on 4 January 1830.

Recorded on 13 January 1830

See original will at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93L-GCXV?i=474&wc=9SYT-PT5%3A267679901%2C268032901&cc=1999178