[Rarebooks] for sale: Georgia/Quaker/Legal Document, 1804

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

CIRCUIT COURT OF GEORGIA, 1804. ENOCH SILSBY VS. THOMAS YOUNG, 
ADMIN[ISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF] DANIEL SILSBY.
REFERRED TO R. W. STITES TO REPORT THEREON.       One full folio
manuscript page, with adjoining sheet. Signed by Stites as Auditor, 
May 5th, 1804.  Details the assets in Young's hands and his agreement 
to turn them
over to Enoch Silsby, the heir.  (Daniel Silsby was a leader of the 
ill-fated Quaker migration to Georgia, which foundered on the 
Quakers' loyalist sympathies and their inability to compete as 
farmers with slave labor. By the following year  (1805) most of the 
Quakers had left for other parts. A Thomas
Young was among those named in a Bill of Attainder passed in Georgia 
in 1782.  As a fellow-royalist  he would have been a person Daniel 
Silsby would have trusted. Stites, an emigrant from New Jersey, was 
born in 1777 and died in Savannah in 1813.  (The career of one Enoch 
Silsby, leading New England merchant shipowner with commercial 
connections in Savannah due to his trade in cotton, is well 
documented, but whether it is this Enoch Silsby we do not know.)   $75.00

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