Oglethorpe County GaArchives Slave Records
Edward L. Thomas v. Samuel Lumpkin
8 January 1849
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Georgia
Oglethorpe County

Know all men by those presents that we James Bridges and Gabriel W. 
Grimes of Elbert County of said State security of first said county are 
held and firmly bound unto Mou?  Smith Sheriff of said County in the 
just and full sum of twelve hundred dollars for true payment of which 
we find ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly 
and ? firmly by these present, sealed with our seals and dated this 
January 8th 1849.

The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas William 
B.P. Haime, deputy sheriff of said county, has levied an attachment in 
favor of Edward L. Thomas, Jr., against Samuel Lumpkin, Jr., returnable 
to the Inferior Court of said county to he held on the fourth Monday in 
January instant, an a certain negro woman slave named Jane, of yellow 
complexion, twenty five years of age, which negro woman has been 
claimed by said James Bridges as his property; Now, should said Bridges 
well and truly pay said Thomas, plaintiff in attachment all damages, 
which the Jury, on the trial of the right of property, may assess 
against him, the said Bridges, in case it should appear that said claim 
was maide for the purpose of delay only, there the above obligaton to 
be null & void, else to remain in full force and virtue

? & approved by                     James Bridges        seal
                               Gabriel W. Grimes Secretary
L.D. Ferguson