Thomas Ligon sells Uriah and Milly to Thomas Cartwright

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

Proceedings of Greene Superior Court, September Term 1816

Thomas Ligon of the County and State aforesaid on the twenty-fifth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eleven, two negro slaves, the one a man named Uriah and a woman named Milly for and in consideration of the sum of nine hundred dollars and on the sale and delivery aforesaid the said Thomas Ligon made his certain bill of sale in writing signed with his own hand being date the day and year aforesaid therewith shown to the Court, by which he acknowledges to have received of your Petitioner nine hundred dollars for which sum he had sold two negroes (viz), one a yellow fellow by the name of Uriah and one negroe woman named Milly – which negroes he warranted to be sound and healthy and also warrants and defended the right and title unto your Petitioner against all and every person. And your petitioner avers and charges that the aforesaid negroe woman named Milly was at the sale and delivery aforesaid and for a long time before and has ever since been deemed unhealthy, unsound and grievously afflicted with fits so as to be entirely useless and a charge to your petitioner, all of which was well known to said Thomas Ligon at the sale and delivery aforesaid by which fraudulent, illicit and deceitful conduct of said Thomas Ligon. Your petitioner has been injured and sustained damage nine hundred dollars wherefore he prays process may issue.

Archibald Martin, Plffs. Atty.

Georgia, Greene County. Thomas Cartwright vs. Thomas Ligon.
To the Sheriff of said County, greeting.
Case in Nature of Deceit
The Defendant is hereby required in person by attorney to be and appear at the next Superior Court to be held in and for said County on the first Monday in September next then and there to answer the plaintiffs demand in an action on the case in nature of deceit to his damage nine hundred dollars as in default thereof said Court will proceed thereon as to Justice shall appertain.

Witness the Honorable Peter Early, Judge of said Court this 11th July 1812.
John Bethune, Clk.

27th July 1812 Served a copy of this personally on the Defendant.
A. Rogers D.S.G.C.

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Court Records 1815–1817, image 158, FamilySearch.