Constable’s Sale of Abram, Sold to Charles Burk

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

Georgia, Greene County, Saturday 11th June 1808

Received of Mr. Charles Burk, seventy-six dollars in full payment for a negro man named Abram which said negro man levied on as the suits of W. A. Gibboney, William Greer, and others rising out of a Justices Court and advertised agreeable to law put upon the highest bidder at public auction when the said Charles Burk became the highest and best bidder at the price or sum of seventy-six dollars as stated above the receipt and whereof I do hereby acknowledge and will warrant and defend the aforesaid negro against the claim or claims of all person or persons whatsoever unto the said Charles Burk as far as I am bound by law in my official situation as constable and no farther as witness my hand and seal the day and year first above written

Test.
John Bethune JP Wm. Cone Cons. (Seal)

Recorded this 20th Febry 1870 
John B. Hume, Clk.

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Land Records 1785–1787, Tax Records 1793, 1796–1797, 1788–1790, image 214, FamilySearch.