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Toney Axson
“I was rejoiced when I first heard of the war and I said thank God so that my wife and daughter could have the same
Sandy Austin
Sandy Austin, who had been enslaved on Joseph LeConte’s Syphax Plantation in Liberty County, Georgia, all his life until Emancipation, filed his Southern Claims Commission
Titus Alvin and Eliza LeConte
In 1877, Titus Alvin, an African American man from Liberty County, Georgia, filed a claim with the Southern Claims Commission on behalf of a deceased
Marriage Contract (Wilkins/Taarlingh)
Enslaved People Named: Rachel, Nancy, John, Rosina, Linda, Cork, Subina, Sapho [alt: Sappho], [Rorah?], Edinburgh, Pompey, Tamer [alt: Tamar], Linda, Grace, Kate, Peter, Flora, James,
An 1890 Census Substitute – Homestead Exemptions
The 1890 U.S. Federal Census was destroyed in a fire in 1921, with only 6,000 records remaining, none of them for Liberty County, Georgia. This
An All-Black Liberty County Militia, 1882
In 1882, Captain Andrew Stacy of the all-Black Georgia Lincoln Guards in Liberty County, Georgia, asked the Liberty County Ordinary, Joseph Ashmore, to record the
Bryan County Deed Record Finished — 3352 Names Added
Exciting news: the Bryan County deed records have been finished and added to the They Had Names website! The They Had Names website is normally
Bryan County Deed of Gift (Elbert/Parsons)
Enslaved People Named: Mary Ann, Cupid, Affy On June 29, 1864, Harriet Ann Elbert, Columbia County, Florida gifted to her grand-niece Catherine Ann Elbert Parsons,
Bryan County Marriage Contract (Wade/Baker)
Enslaved People Named: Sylvia, Nancy, Jane, Flora, Morris, Billy On March 17, 1864, Dr. James A. Wade, Bryan County, and Anne Eliza Baker, same place,
Bryan County Bill of Sale (King/Elbert)
Enslaved People Named: Courtnay, Sally, Burke On February 18, 1863, at Savannah, Nicholas King sold to Harriet Ann Elbert, surviving trustee of C.A.E. Parsons for
Bryan County Civil War (Clay)
Enslaved People Named: None On March ?17?, 1863, in Bryan County, Miss Eliza C. Clay appeared before a justice of the Bryan County Inferior Court
Bryan County Bill of Sale (Parker/Smith)
Enslaved People Named: Isabella On March 5, 1863, in Savannah, W.B. Parker sold to Henry E. Smith, Bryan County, for $1300 “a negro slave named
Bryan County Settlement (Shuman/Shuman)
Enslaved People Named: Sue, Charles On December 6, 1861, Phereby Shuman and Wm. [William] H. Shuman came to agreement over a lawsuit between the two
Bryan County Bill of Sale (Shuman/Shuman)
Enslaved People Named: Lidda On March 22, 1855, Phereby Shuman, Bryan County, sold to Wm. [William] H. Shuman, Bryan County, for $300 “the following property