Consistent, but not identifying or probative on its own.
Richard H. Taliaferro names his friend William Quarles and his son George as executors, serving without surety.
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Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
The will directs that the rest of the estate be kept together for four years, its profits applied to the support and education of his children; any child marrying or coming of age in that time takes a sixth part in value of the personal estate.
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Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
To his son Zachary or Jacky H., land on the south side of the run purchased partly of Thomas B. Adams, and two people named in the will as Jane and Hannah. This is a best reading; the clerk's hand is difficult here.
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Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
Witnessed by Reynolds Chapman and Hugh Darby; proved on their oaths at the quarterly court, 22 November 1830. Executorship granted to George G. Taliaferro on 27 December 1830 under a bond of thirty thousand dollars.
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Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
The land called Elmwood, bought of the executors of Doctor Charles Taylor, is directed to be sold and the proceeds divided between William D. and the four daughters.
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Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
The appraisement is a numbered list of more than fifty men, women and children held by the estate, each with a cash valuation. The page begins mid-list at number 9 and runs to number 52 or 53; the total carried for the enslaved people is $11,200.00.
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Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
The list also names John, Armstead, Oscar, Randolph, James, Jefferson, Joseph, Frank, Redding or Fielding, Madison, Peter, La Fayette, Sucky, Patty, Nancy, Charlotte, Lucy, Maria, Amy, Caroline, Ellen, Milly, Malinda, Patsy, Sarah, Mary Ann, Eliza, Andrew, Paul, Jerry, Thornton, Ellis, Robert, George, Ben and Edward. Several women are recorded only as a woman "& child" — the appraisement records no relationships at all.
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Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
The household and farm inventory totals $3,215.25: four good feather beds, forty-one yards of carpeting, silver, looms, six spinning wheels, a set of blacksmith's tools, livestock, five thousand pounds of pork, corn, fodder and whiskey — the working plantation the people in the appraisement were forced to run.
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Appraisement of the personal estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
Estate totals: enslaved people $11,200.00; personal estate not including them $3,215.25; real estate directed to be sold $3,557.25; total $17,972.50. Nearly two thirds of this estate's appraised value was the value placed on human beings.
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Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
Elmwood, surveyed by Reuben Lindsay on 28 March 1823 at 395 and one quarter acres, valued at nine dollars per acre. Appraisers William C. Willis, Robert Taylor Jr and Thomas Scott, sworn before the justice Ambrose Madison; certified by George G. Taliaferro, executor, and ordered recorded at the quarterly court.
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Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
Richard H. Taliaferro buys a spinning wheel, a butter pot and a cricket, and broad hoes; Peachy R. Taliaferro buys a set of bags, a horse at $56 and two axes. Other purchasers include Ambrose Madison, Reynolds Chapman and Zachariah A. Taliaferro. The value here is placement, not kinship.
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Orange County estate sale, 1825 — Taliaferros as purchasers
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
John Taliaferro leaves his estate to his wife Mildred M. Taliaferro for life, then to be sold and divided between Ann Elizabeth Watters, Lucy H. Taliaferro, Martha M. Taliaferro, James C. Taliaferro and Mary L. Taliaferro. Recorded on the same pages as the appraisement of George Newman's estate, which values four elderly enslaved people at nothing at all. No link to Richard H. Taliaferro is asserted.
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Will of John Taliaferro of Orange County, Virginia
Entered from the Orange County, Virginia film, Image Group Number 007645708. The record is documented; the identification with Hilliard or with Agnes of the 1855 dispute is not.
