This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records.
The Temperance Banner, December 17, 1853
Administrator’s Sale.
Will be sold on the first Tuesday in January 1854, before the Court House door in Greenesboro’, under an order of the Court of Ordinary of Greene county, four hundred acres of Land, more or less; (sold under an incumbrace of the widow’s dower,) adjoining the Lands of W. A. Corry, R. G. Carlton, and A. H. Randle. Also, twelve Negroes, viz: Tom, 50 years of age; Dinah, 54; Cealey, 50; Suvy, 45; Absalom, 60; Willie, 28; Moses (a blacksmith), 30; Aesop, 10; Tom, Jr., 15; Jake, 12, Catharine, 10, and Sam, 7. All sold as the property of the Estate of John Stephens late of Greene county, deceased. Terms on the day.
HENRY STEVENS, Adm’r.
Nov. 19th, 1853 47.-td
Reference
Administrator’s Sale, The Temperance Banner, December 17, 1853.
