Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Maria and Cloe—servants of Bros. Peek and Brown

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

Shiloh Baptist Church Minute Extracts 

Shiloh June 1st, 1850

The Church met in conference.

(1st) Invited visiting brethren to seats.

(2nd) Opened a door for the reception of members when Bro. William Foster and wife Sister Mary Foster, Sister Elizabeth Foster now Elizabeth Burke, and Sister Carolina Totty presented letters from the church at Smyrna and were received. Maria, Servant to Bro. Simon Peek and Cloe, Servt. to Bro. A. (?) Brown came forward and were received by experience. No other business. Called the roll and adjourned.

N. M. Crawford, Mod.

R. B. Edmonds, C. Clerk

Reference

Church records, 1839-1859, Greene County, Georgia, Shiloh Baptist Church Records, image 82 of 122; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34J-3Q6T?i=81&cat=193117 (free registration required). 

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