Frederick Johnson mortgages 10 negroes to Benjamin Cook

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

Greene, Georgia, United States Deed 1819

For the latter securing the payment of the above two notes of hand say a forty-four hundred and twenty dollars I make, own the right and title of seven negroes by way of mortgage to wit: John, Amar, Eliza and her child Nancy, Dolly a woman, Miki a lad of sixteen, Jack a boy of seven years old, which seven negroes I warrant and defend the right and title to Benjamin Cook for the better security of the above sum of money one note next January for twenty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars and the other for twenty-two hundred and ninety-five dollars the first of January twelve months after. In witness whereof, I have set my hand and seal this 15th of January 1818.

Frederick Johnson

Witness J. W. Foster

Rec’d twenty-two hundred and ninety-five dollars in other notes in which case the last part of the mortgage is settled.

Benjamin Cook

This day, I, Frederick Johnson, have delivered to Benjamin Cook, Mike a mulatto boy at eight hundred dollars, also Liza and her child Mary, at nine hundred dollars in part pay for the last notes of twenty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars mentioned in the within mortgage.

Frederick Johnson
27th February 1819

Recorded 17th November 1819
Ebenezer Torrence, Clerk 

Reference

Greene, County, Georgia, Deeds 1818–1821, 1821–1826, image 149, FamilySearch.