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Deed of Trust Naming Five Enslaved Persons, Hancock County, Georgia, 1841

1841 deed of trust with the names of five enslaved persons, Hancock County, Georgia, 1841

More About This Collection

Creator
Connell, Martha Maria Bryan Hanford, 1808-1844 (of Hancock County, Ga., enslaver, first party)
Bryan, Joseph, 1768-1850 (of Hancock County, Ga., enslaver, second party)
Audas, Tuttle H. (Tuttle Hudson), 1795-1868 (Clerk, Hancock County Superior Court, third party)

Contributor to Resource
Connell, Martha Maria Bryan Hanford, 1808-1844 (of Hancock County, Ga., enslaver, first party)
Bryan, Joseph, 1768-1850 (of Hancock County, Ga., enslaver, second party)
Audas, Tuttle H. (Tuttle Hudson), 1795-1868 (Clerk, Hancock County Superior Court, third party)
Augusta-Richmond County Public Library

Date of Original
1841-04-11/1849-01-01

People
Connell, Martha Maria Bryan Hanford, 1808-1844 (of Hancock County, Ga., enslaver, first party)
Bryan, Joseph, 1768-1850 (of Hancock County, Ga., enslaver, second party)
Audas, Tuttle H. (Tuttle Hudson), 1795-1868 (Clerk, Hancock County Superior Court, third party)
Matt, male, age 25 (Enslaved person in Hancock County, Ga.)
Bird, male, age 25 (Enslaved person in Hancock County, Ga.)
Jenny, female, age 35 (Enslaved person in Hancock County, Ga.)
Annette, female, age not disclosed (Enslaved person in Hancock County, Ga., likely Jenny's daughter)
George, male, age 5 (Enslaved person in Hancock County, Ga., likely Jenny's son)

Location
United States, Georgia, Hancock County, 33.27043, -83.00069
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, 33.35963, -82.07355
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484

Medium
deeds

Type
Text

Description
Former titles include: [Deed of Trust Naming Five Slaves], Hancock County, Georgia, 1841 and [Document Showing Sale of Five Negro Slaves], 1841.
Following the item's donation in 1966, the document was initially bound and entitled “Document Showing Sale of Five Negro Slaves.” However, the document is, in fact, a deed of trust initially established on April 11, 1841 in Hancock County, Georgia between Martha Maria Bryan Harford Connell (1808-1844) and her father Joseph Bryan (1768-1850), not a sale.
The five people identified were: "Matt," male, age 25; "Bird," male, age 25; "Jenny," female, age 35; "Annette," age not disclosed (Jenny's daughter); and "George," age 5 (Jenny's son).
Maria was the daughter of Joseph Bryan (1768-1850) and Anne Goode Bryan (1777-1837). Joseph and Anne Goode Bryan had several children: Julia Anne Bryan Cumming (1803-1879), Martha Maria Bryan Harford Connell (1808-1844), Confederate Army Brigadier General Goode Bryan (1811-1885), Sophia Bryan Harris (1817-1883), and Samuel Strong Bryan, who died in infancy (1819-1819).
Maria Bryan Harford's first husband was William H. Harford, born in 1808, who was admitted to the US Military Academy on July 1 1825, employed by the U.S. Topographical Engineers, and died in New Orleans Jan 20 1836. The widowed Maria Bryan Harford remarried Dr. Alva Connell, Sr. (1811-1871) on April 11, 1841. She died in Hancock County in 1844.
This deed of trust was initially registered by Tuttle H. Audas, the Clerk of Superior Court, Hancock County on September 2, 1842. The deed was not certified until January 1, 1847, by Tuttle H. Audas, Clerk of Hancock County Superior Court, and again on January 1, 1849, by Tuttle H. Audas, Clerk of Hancock County Superior Court.
The five enslaved people, only partially identified and listed inside of the deed of trust are: "Matt," male, age 25; "Bird," male, age 25; "Jenny," female, age 35; "Annette," whose age was not disclosed (Jenny's daughter); and "George," age 5 (Jenny's son).
There are records in the 1850 and 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules that are listed under the Clerk of Superior Court, Hancock County's name Tuttle H. Audas (on pages 8 and 9 for the 1850 schedules and on page 6 of the 1860 schedules) but enslaved persons were identified only by their age and gender, not their names. There are no records listed under "Bryan" or "Harford," the actual enslavers.

Metadata URL
https:/dlg.usg.edu/collection/gaec_hancock-deed

Language
eng

Holding Institution
Augusta-Richmond County Public Library

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