List of Slaveowner Names
From the Watchmen's Meeting Minutes
The “Watchmen’s Meetings” minutes from 1840-1845 and 1857-1859 are transcribed elsewhere on this site. Those minutes, kept by Reverend Charles Colcock Jones, frequently abbreviate the names of the slaveowners, and those names are critical in being able to find records for the African-descended people identified only by first names in the minutes.
The list below is in alphabetical order by the slaveowner’s surname, and attempts to equate the abbreviated name with the person it identifies, as well as their birth and death dates. Any of these people who died before 1865 is likely to have an estate inventory naming enslaved people on this website. If you are looking for an African-descended person named in the minutes, and the slaveowner has a death date before 1865, try searching for the slaveowner’s first and last name on this site to see if there is an estate inventory. It is also important to research the slaveowner, because often in Liberty County, enslaved people were brought into a marriage by the wife, who had inherited them from either her father or mother (and sometimes from a grandparent).
This list is an educated guess at who the abbreviated name represents, so be sure to do your own research for confirmation. Please address any questions and/or comments to me at jnscole@yahoo.com.
As spelled in text | Full spelling with birth and death dates (if known) |
Mrs. Axson | Probably Mrs. Ann Axson (1781-1854) |
John Bacon (est) | John Bacon (1774-1833) |
Jon’n Bacon | Jonathan Bacon |
J.E. Baker, John E. Baker | John Elijah Baker (1833-1906) |
Q. Baker | Should this be William Quarterman Baker? |
Thos. Baker (est) | Thomas Baker (before 1837, date of estate inventory) |
T.E.W. Baker | William Thomas E. Baker (1817-1860(?)) |
W.S. Baker | William Samuel Baker (1808-1862) |
Col. Bradwell | Col. James Sharpe Bradwell (1794-1853) |
B.A. Busby | Bartholomew Austin Busby (1788-1862) |
Thos. Q. Cassels | Thomas Quarterman Cassels (1808-1879) |
John Coleman | John Coleman (1786-after 1860) |
G.W. Dunham | George Washington Dunham (1807-1860) |
Dunwody | Probably John Dunwody (see below) |
J. Dunwody | John Dunwody (1786-1858) or (1818-1903) |
Miss S. Fabian | Miss Sarah D. Fabian (granddaughter of Mary Ann Ladson) ( – 1850) |
J.S. Fleming | John S. Fleming (1812-1847) or (1837-1915) |
P. Fleming | Possibly Peter Winn Fleming (1807-1882) |
Thos. Fleming | Probably Thomas Winn Fleming (1815-1894) |
John Girardeau | John Girardeau (1796-1873) |
J. Girardeau | John Girardeau (1796-1873) |
C. Hines | Charlton Hines (1785-1864) |
R. Hutchinson | Probably Robert Hutchinson of Savannah, a merchant with whom Liberty County planters arranged mortgages using enslaved people (1802-?) |
C.C.J. | Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863) |
M.L. Jones | Moses L. Jones (1805-1851) |
Mrs. Kell | Possibly John Kell’s widow Margery Kell (1794-1870) |
Dr. B.B. King | Dr. Benjamin B. King (1813-?) |
R. King Jr | Roswell King, Jr (1796-1854) |
Mrs. Lang | Mrs. Lydia Laing (died after 1859) |
Wm. LeConte | William LeConte (1812-1841) |
Maj. Cyrus Mallard | Cyrus Stevens Mallard (1818-1853) |
Cyrus S. Mallard (est) | Cyrus Stevens Mallard (1818-1853) |
J.B. Mallard | John Boyd Mallard (1808-1877) |
J.L. Mallard | Lazarus John Mallard (1820-1876) |
T. Mallard, Thos. Mallard | Thomas Mallard (1778-1861) |
Wm. Martin | William Martin (maybe William G. Martin (1808-1861)) |
Mrs. A. Maxwell | Presumably Mrs. Audley Maxwell, nee Mary Stevens (1772-1850) |
J.E. Maxwell | Joseph Edward Maxwell (1802-1886) |
Capt. Maxwell | Possibly William Maxwell (1785-1866) |
Col. Maxwell | Possibly William Maxwell (1785-1866) |
John Norman | Possibly John Stacy Norman (1815-1885) |
Wm. Norman | Possibly William Sanford Norman (1822-1878) |
Maj’r Porter | Probably Major Anthony Porter (1788-1869) |
Col. Quarterman | Colonel Joseph Quarterman (1796-1863) |
Ed’d Quarterman | Edward Quarterman |
Col. J. Quarterman | Colonel Joseph Quarterman (1796-1863) |
J. Quarterman (est) | Colonel Joseph Quarterman (1796-1863) |
J.S. Quarterman (est) | John S. Quarterman (1775-1836) |
Rev’d R. Quarterman | Reverend Robert Quarterman (1787-1849) |
R. Quarterman (est) | Probably Reverend Robert Quarterman (1787-1849) |
Mrs. Robert Quarterman | Probably Reverend Robert Quarterman’s 4th wife and widow Sarah Margaret Shaffer (1897-1881), widow of Thomas Baker |
Mrs. Sarah Quarterman | Probably Reverend Robert Quarterman’s 4th wife and widow Sarah Margaret Shaffer (1897-1881), widow of Thomas Baker |
T. Quarterman Senior | Probably Thomas Quarterman (1788-1857) |
Screven (est) | |
S. Spencer, Sam’l Spencer | Probably Samuel B. Spencer [1827-1901] |
O. Stevens | Oliver Stevens (1783-1853) |
N. Varnedoe | Nathaniel Varnedoe (1790-1856) |
G.W. Walthour | George W. Walthour (1799-1859) |
Ed. B. Way, E.B. Way, Edm’d B. Way | Edmund Bacon Way (1821-1862) |
Mrs. E. Way | |
Moses Way (est) | Moses William Way (1825-1859) or (1794-1831) |
Norman Way | Possibly William Norman Way (1782-1854) |
N. Way (est) | Possibly William Norman Way (1782-1854) (there was also a Nathaniel J. Way) |
Wm. J. Way, Wm. John Way | William John Way (1826-1902) |
Q. Way (est) | Quarterman Way (1799-1833) |
A. Winn | Abial Winn (1815-1874) |
James Winn | Possibly James Wilson Winn (1807-1853) |
J.W. Winn (est), James W. Winn (est) | James Wilson Winn (1807-1853) |
Rev’d T.S. Winn | Rev. Thomas Sumner Winn (1820-1900) |
Washington Winn (est) | Washington Winn (1799-before 1864) |
W.W. Winn | William Wilson Winn (1818-1887) |