Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Samuel Davis loans Lotty and Fed to daughter, Cornelia Preston

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

Davis to Preston

We the undersigned do certify that on this the 29th day of August, Eighteen hundred and sixty, Samuel Davis did bring before us a Negro Girl of dark color named Lotty, about seventeen years old and a negro boy of dark complexion about twelve years old named Fed and notified us that he intended to send said negroes to his daughter Cornelia Preston who is now in the Creek Nation and that he intends them simply as a loan to his said daughter.

In witness whereof we have hereunto affixed our hands and seal on the day above mentioned.

Test. 
James W. Godkin J.P.

I. L. Mathews
W. H. Morrison
Isaac R. Hall

Recorded this 29th day of August 1860.
Isaac R. Hall, Clerk

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Deed Books 1852–1857, 1857–1862, image 483, FamilySearch. 

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