Sold for taxes.
by Lisa Y. Henderson
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on Saturday night, the 28th of April, a free negro boy calling himself BRYANT OXYDIM. He was sold in February last at Sheriff’s sale for his taxes, until December next for which time I purchased him. For the last two or three years he has been living about Watkinsville. Bryant is about 28 or 30 years of age; about 5 ½ feet high; dark mulatto; spare made; limps slightly in his left leg when walking; his eyes being set very close cause him to appear cross-eyed. He carried several suits of clothing, made mostly of cheap goods.
Any information respecting him will be thankfully received, and a fair compensation made for arresting him. It is probable he will make his way to Jasper county, as he came from there. He was born in North Carolina, and came to Georgia, when very young. Athens, May 3, 1849. W.S. Hemphill.
Southern Whig, Athens, Georgia, May __, 1849.
Fourth Generation Inclusive 
[…] WHEREAS, Bryant Oxendine, a free person of color, was taken up for failing to comply with the Registration Laws of this State, in the year 1850, and was found guilty and fined by the Inferior Court of Forsyth County one hundred dollars, and being unable to pay the fine was hired out, under the Laws of this State, for a term of eighteen months, for the price of one hundred dollars, to John Montgomery, on the 5th day of December, 1850, and the said John Montgomery gave his note due eighteen months after date, to the Justices of the Inferior Court of Forsyth County, for the sum of one hundred dollars, with William A. Lewis as security for the same. And, […]