Phillip, Becky, Easter, Fanny, and Mary: property of Lemuel Shipp and Jesse Perkins

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

Temperance Banner, Penfield, Georgia, July 3, 1852.

Executor’s Sale. Will be sold before the Court House door in the Town of Greenesboro,’ on the first Tuesday in August next, under an order of the Ordinary of Greene County, the following property, to wit:—The plantation which was the late resdidence [sic] of Jesse Perkins, deceased, also one Negro man named Phillip, one woman named Becky, one named Easter and one named Fanny, all sold as the property of Jesse Perkins, deceased. Terms of sale given on the day.

NICHOLAS PERKINS, VINCENT SANFORD, Ex’rs.

June 2 1852 25—2m

Temperance Banner, Penfield, Georgia, April 9, 1853

NOTICE. Will be sold, before the Court House door, in Greene county, (under an order of the Ordinary of said county,) on the first Tuesday in May next, one Negro Girl, named Mary, about seventeen years of age. Sold as the property Lemuel Shipp, (an Insane man) for the bonefit [sic] of the said Lemuel Shipp and his creditors. Terms cash.

ISAAC A. WILLIAMS, Guard’n.

March 19th, 1853 12