Henry, boy for hire, property of Lemuel Greene

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 Superior Court of Greene
No. (11) Greene Superior Court, March Term 1857
Augustine F. Greene, Admr. Vs. William A. Lankford and Joel G. Hobbs – Complaint
$105.00

On or by the 25th of December next we promise to pay to A. F. Greene Admr. of Lemuel Greene or bearer one hundred and five dollars for hire of boy, Henry, and give him three suits of good clothes, one pair of shoes, hat, and blanket. 

William A. Lankford [his mark]
J. G. Hobbs, Security [his mark]
Value received January 1st 1856
Test.
John W. Lankford

Georgia, Greene County – To the Superior Court of Said County. The petition of Augustine F. Greene Administrator upon the estate of Lemuel Greene deceased who being here to Court his letters of Administration and makes profert of the same showeth that William A. Lankford as principal and Joel G. Hobbs as Security both of said County are indebted to him in the sum of one hundred and five dollars besides interest on a promissory note dated January the first Eighteen Hundred and fifty six and due on or by the twenty first day of December next ensuring the date of said note which said promissory Note the said William A. Lankford as Principal and Joel G. Hobbs as Security, refuses to pay. Wherefore your petitioner prays process may issue requiring the said William A. Lankford as principal and Joel G. Hobbs as Security to be and appear at the next Superior Court for said County to answer your petitioners complaint.

Philip B. Robinson, Plff. Atty.

Georgia – To the Sheriff of Greene County, Greeting
Augustine F. Greene, Admr. Vs. William A. Lankford and Joel G. Hobbs, Security – Complaint.
The Defendants are hereby required personally or by attorney to be and appear at the Superior Court to be held in and for the County of Greene on the second Monday in March next then and there to answer the Plaintiffs demand in an action of Complaint as in default thereof the said Court will proceed as to Justice Shall appertain.

Witness the Honorable Robert V. Hardeman, Judge of Said Court this 9th day of February 1857.
Vincent Sanford, Clerk
I acknowledge due and legal Service of the within and give copy and process 17th February 1857.
W. A. Lankford [his mark]
Personally served Joel G. Hobbs with a copy of the within writ February 20th, 1857.
T. F. Foster, D. Sheriff

March Term 1857 Default
September Term 1857 Judgment Confessed
We confess judgment to the Plaintiff for the sum of one Hundred and five Dollars principal debt the sum of Five Dollars and Eighty nine cents interest and the cost of suit.

Cone & Fuller, Defs. Atty.

Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the Court that the Plaintiff as Administrator upon the Estate of Lemuel Greene deceased do recover against the Defendants the sum of one Hundred and five Dollars for his principal Debt the sum of five Dollars and Eighty nine cents Interest and the Sum of [blank] for his costs of suit in this behalf laid out and expended Judgment Signed September 19th 1857.

Philip B. Robinson Plff. Atty.
Recorded this 28th day of October 1857.
Vincent Sanford, Clerk 

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Superior Court, Special Proceedings Records 1856–1858, image 194 of 336; (free registration required) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3M5-2STV-D?view=explore&groupId=TH-909-81740-77180-75.