Theft of Rachel, property of Elijah Ballard

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

Georgia, Greene County

The Grand Jurors sworn, chosen, and selected for the County of Greene to wit Thomas Stocks, John Slaughter, John Mercer, Ambrose Hutcheson, Francis West, Thomas Moseley, George Heard, Gilly Moore, Jesse Perkins, James K. Daniel, John Powers, Alexander King, Joseph McBride, John Love, John Mapp, Thomas Crawford, James Culberson, Joseph Riley, Thomas Dawson, Isaac Mitchell, John J. Beatie, Rene Fitzpatrick and John Park, in the name and behalf of the citizens of Georgia, charge and accuse McQuinney Iles and John Barnhard, both of the County aforesaid, with the offence of Larceny of a Slave, for that the said McQuinney Iles and John Barnhard on the twenty-seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, at the plantation of Elijah Ballard in the county aforesaid, with force and arms, a certain negro woman slave named Rachel, the property of the said Elijah Ballard, of the value of four hundred dollars, then and there being found, did feloniously steal, take and carry away, to the great damage of him the said Elijah Ballard, contrary to the laws of said State the good order, peace and dignity thereof.

Adam G. Saffold, Sol. Genl.
Elijah Ballard, prosecutor
March Term 1822

The State vs. McQuinney Iles and John Barnhard
Witnesses: Elijah Ballard, Danl. McIver, John Brown, John Clapp, Dan Macon
Larceny of a Slave
True Bill
Thomas Stocks, Foreman

Copy and list of Witnesses waived as to McQuinney Iles and Copy and list of Witnesses furnished John Barnard.

The defendants arraigned and plead not guilty.
March Term 1822
Adam G. Saffold, Sol. Genl.

Reference

Greene County, Court Minutes 1812–1827, image 391, FamilySearch.