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

During colonial Georgia, most of what is now Liberty County was in St. John Parish. The Georgia Archives has copies of wills and estate inventories for this time period. Below are summaries of the colonial-era estate inventories that named enslaved people from the parishes that became Liberty County in alphabetical order by surname. Click on the titles to see the summaries, which include the names of all enslaved people.