Malinda named in Henry Asbury’s estate

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

In the 1847 probate records of Henry Asbury, a receipt documents payment to John Crutchfield for boarding and clothing an enslaved woman named Malinda during that year. A second receipt records the trustee, John G. Holtzclaw, paying Asbury’s county taxes.

Received of John Holtzclaw, Trustee of Henry Asbury, twenty-five dollars for board and clothing negro woman Malinda for the year 1847 this 7th Jany. 1848.

John Crutchfield

Received of John G. Holtzclaw, Trustee for Henry Asbury, his Tax for 1847. Amount $2.92 ½.

J. L. Turner, Tax Collector.

Reference

Estate Records, Greene County, Georgia, Probate Estate Case Files 1790–1943, image 615, FamilySearch.