Other (Tyrone)
Enslaved People Named: Tyrone [Begin transcription] Newport Brachers Bridge State of Georgia, Liberty County } To all to whom these presents shall come these are to certify that the bearer Tyrone (freeman) once the property of John Anderson planter in this place is hereby entitled in consideration of the uprightness of fidelity of his […]
Other (Patty)
Enslaved People Named: Patty On January 1, 1799, Patty, a free woman, signed the following indenture by mark: “Georgia Know all men by these presents that I Patty a free Negro woman have by these presents in & for the consideration of two Barrels of Rice, and two suits of cloths to be annually delivered […]
Other (Myddelton/Lawson)
Enslaved Persons Named: None named [NOTE: The quotes below were transcribed as seen, including spelling and punctuation errors.] On May 29, 1791, a letter from Charles S. Myddelton was recorded in Liberty County Superior Court. The letter was addressed from “Green Field” on March 30, 1791, and began, “Dear Sir: Your favour of the Twelfth […]
Other (Elbert/Baker)
Enslaved Persons Named: Not named “Sir: As your last bond became due in November last I am under the necessity of applying to you for payment some years past my late husband when at the northward sold a parcel of Negroes the property of my Daughters, and as my wish is that they should not […]
Beware the Altered Image – Part 3
I’ve posted previously about a church record and an estate inventory I found in a book that were created by combining parts of historical documents from Liberty County, Georgia. These illustrate the need to verify any document you plan to use in your family history research. It may be easier now than it ever has been to create fraudulent […]
Beware the Altered Image – Part 2
I posted previously about an image I found in a book that had been created by combining parts of several historical documents. I posted about it to illustrate the need for all of us to research thoroughly any such documents we find outside the original sources. That same source had another example: an altered estate inventory. I […]
Road Hands for 4th District (1830s)
The following list was found in loose Liberty County papers that had been digitized at the Georgia Archives and placed online. No date was given, but estate inventories for John Way place the likely date between 1830 and 1836. Enslaved people were used as a labor force for repairing roads in Liberty County, and slaveholders […]
Movement Pass – Rodney
State of Georgia, Chatham County } City of Savannah I do hereby certify that the [word] Negro man named Rodney, aged about twenty nine years, is a free negro, and to my knowledge has been so, for many years past. He is reported to be an Honest, Industrious & Sober man and as such I […]
Appointed Agent (Stacy/Baker)
Enslaved Persons Named: Joe, Bristol, Nejah, Nanny On April 7, 1834, John W. Stacy, of Liberty County, appointed John G. Baker his agent and attorney “to manage feed cloathe [SIC] and support the following named Slaves viz Joe Bristol Nejah [alt: Neger, Negah] & Nanny together with the issue of the females, for and during […]
Posted as Bond (Bradwell/Thiess)
Enslaved Persons Named: Simon, Andrew “Georgia, Liberty County } This indenture made this 20th day of January 1853, between J.S. Bradwell of the one part and Jacob Thiess Sheriff of said County of the other part witnesseth that whereas the said James S. Bradwell is desirous of taking out of jail a certain boy called […]