This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records.
Lankford’s Receipt to Johnson
Georgia, Greene County,
Know all men these presents that I James M. Lankford hereby release and discharge Wiley G. Johnson of said county from all liability whatever upon a certain Bill of Sale and warranty of a negro woman slave named Lucy, a mulato about fifty years of age executed and delivered to me by the said Johnson on the [blank] day of June 1855 either in law or equity. And I hereby acknowledge the receipt of one hundred and twenty-five dollars in full payment and satisfaction of said warranty.
Given under my hand and private seal this 20th day of May 1858.
James M. Lankford
Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of us
Daniel B. Sanford
James W. Godkin, J.P.
Recorded the 21st of May 1858.
Daniel B. Sanford (for) Vincent Sanford, Clerk
Reference
Greene, Deed Books 1852–1857, 1857–1862, Greene County (Georgia), Clerk of the Superior Court; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK2-DS65-C?view=explore&groupId=TH-909-71712-66070-8 (free registration required).
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