GLYNN COUNTY, GA -   Sale of Slaves Butler's Island

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Here's the list of slaves (with CHATTEL #) sold from
Butler's Island on March 2 and 3, 1859 at a Grand Auction.
(off the coast of Georgia). 

Butler's Island or Hampton Point Plantation (both belonged
to Major Pierce Butler and Pierce Mease Butler)

Hampton Point Plantation on St. Simon's Island and Butler's
Island (about 1 mile south of Darien), both off the coast of
Georgia.

Pierce Butler inherited his property from his grandfather,
Major Pierce Butler. Major Pierce Butler inherited most of
his slaves from his wife, Mary "Polly" Middleton (of the
South Carolina Middleton family), who inherited them from
her grandmother, Mary Bull (the Bull family of South
Carolina, another prominent family).

Most of the Middleton slaves were from Barbadoes.


Family One ($620 ea.):
1. George, 27 years old
2. Sue, 26
3. George Jr.
4. Harry

Family Two:
5. Elisha
6. Molly
7. Israel
8. Sevanda

Family Three ($1,005 ea.):
9. Robert
10. Luna (has goitre)

Chattels # 11-98 not listed.

Family Four ($510 ea.):
99. Kate's John, 31
100. Betsey, 29
101. Kate, 6
102. Violet, 3 mos.
(This is my family. They were sold to A.W. Baird of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. )

Family Five ($300 ea.):
103. Wooster, 45
104. Mary

Family Six ($600 ea):
105. Commodore Bob, aged
106. Kate, aged
(Commodore Bob and Kate returned to the island after the Civil War and took the surname of Bob.)
107. Linda, 19
108. Joe, 13

Family Seven ($1,135 ea):
109. Bob, 30
110. Mary, 25

Family Eight ($250 ea):
111. Anson, 49 (had a ruptured eye)
112. Violet, 55

Family Nine ($250 ea):
113. Allen Jeffery, 46
114. Sikey, 43
115. Watty, 5 (infirmed legs)

Family Ten ($645 ea.):
116. Rina, 18
117. Lena, 1

Family Eleven ($580 ea):
118. Pompey, 31 (lame in one foot)
119. Kitty, 30
120. Pompey Jr., 10
121. John, 7
122. Noble, 1

Chattels 123-277 not listed.

278. Dorcas (this was the girlfriend of Jeffrey #319. Was sold with a family of four to South Carolina).

Chattes 279-314 not listed.

Family Twelve ($670 ea):
315. Prince
316. Amity
317. Twin #1, 1
318. Twin #2, 1

319. Jeffrey, 23, ($1,310) (Boyfriend of Dorcas. Sold alone to Great Swamp of North Carolina)

Family Thirteen:
320. Mingo
321. his wife

322. Dembo, 20 (married Francis, #404, day of auction, both sold to Alabama).

Chattels 323-340 not listed.

Family Fourteen ($400 ea.):
341. Goin, 39
342. Cassander, 35
343. Emiline, 19
344. Judy, 11

Family Fifteen ($1,200 ea)
345. Dorcas, 17
346. Joe, 3 mos.

347. Tom, 22, ($1,260)

348. Judge Will, 55, ($325)

Family Sixteen ($300 ea):
349. Lowden, 54
350. Hagar, 50
351. Lowden Jr., 15
352. Silas, 13
353. Lettia, 11

Family Seventeen ($1,295 ea):
354. Fielding, 21
355. Abel, 19

Family Eighteen (withdrawn from sale):
356. Smith's Bill, aged
357. Leah, 46
358. Sally, 9

Family Nineteen ($570 ea):
359. Adam, 24
360. Charlotte, 22
361. Lesh, 1

Family Twenty ($950 ea.):
362. Maria, 47
363. Luna, 22
364. Clementina, 17

Family Twenty-One ($700 ea.):
365. Tom, 48
366. Harriet, 41
367. Wanney, 19 (male)
368. Deborah, 6
369. Infant, 3 mos.

Family Twenty-Two ($625 ea.):
370. Primus
371. Daphney
372. Dido, 3
373. Infant, 17 days (born on February 14, 1859).

Family Twenty-Three (not sold)
374. Doctor George
375. Margaret

Chattels 376-403 not listed.

404. Frances ($1,320) (wife of Dembo, #322, sold to Alabama)

Chattels 405-418 not listed.

419. Guy, 20, ($1,280)
420. Andrew ($1,040) lost right eye
421. Shoemaker Bill's Sally, aged
422. Joshua's Molly and family ($695)
423-428. Sally Walker and her five adult children ($6,180)
429. William ($1,750)
430. Jane ($1,250)

Chattels 431-436 not listed.