Frank, purchased by James M. Lankford and William H. Jones

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Rowland to Lankford & Jones

Received of James M. Lankford and William H. Jones thirteen hundred and fifty dollars in full payment for a negro man named Frank about thirty-two years old, which I warrant sound in mind and body, and a slave for life. I also warrant the titles to said negro to said Lankford and Jones good.

Witness my hand and seal, this, Greenesboro, October 4th, 1860.

William Rowland, Senr.

Witness. W. G. Johnson, J.I.C.

Recorded this 8th day of January 1861.

Isaac R. Hall, Clerk

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Reference

Greene, Deed Books 1852–1857, 1857–1862, Greene County (Georgia), Clerk of the Superior Court; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK2-DSX6-9?view=explore&groupId=TH-909-71712-66070-8 (free registration required).