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 County, appeared before him to swear that Mrs. Mary Wells, late of Sunbury and deceased, called her to her in her final illness to say that she intended to leave […]
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 his sister in 1794 on the condition that she should be returned to him at his sister’s death, and then freed upon his death. James Smith, a planter of Liberty […]
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 property of the Estate of Samuel Burnley, hereby relinquishing all my right, title and ownership in & to the said Negro woman named Abby and forever dissolving the relationship of […]
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 named Pender [alt: Penda] have by these presence [SIC, presents] declared for her faithfulness to me in my lifetime do by these presents set her free at my death, I […]
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 as a Slave no longer than during my natural life after my decease I do leave him his freedom together with all that belongs to the said Negro man Dublin […]
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 a certain sum of money agreed by him to be paid to me for Emancipating him. James M. Steuart [End transcription] Recorded in Liberty County Superior Court on October 3, […]
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 Viz. Eleonorah, Haratia [alt: Horatia], Carolinus and Eletitia hereby relinquishing all my right title and ownership in and to the said Slaves and forever dissolving the relationship of Master and […]
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 named Madalone…at the special request of Mrs. Mary Cristie of Sunbury, widow…the said Madalone being now about three years of age, the daughter of a Negroe Slave named Jeanie, that […]
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 paid him 60 pounds sterling. He affirmed, “I do hereby declare that the said Myrtiller is and shall be free from the day of the Date hereof.” Witnessed by Thomas […]
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 Skinner and William Alexander of the East Florida province, as executors of the last will and testament of the late Colin McKinzie of the same province, had affirmed that “whereas […]