Research object · BT-CLM-00557

A Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831

Name: BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive
Creator: Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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Under Investigation· 14 sourcesNot yet reviewed

Research & Interpretation byAmberly R. Carter-Mills— Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist

The Claim

The 1831 appraisement of Richard H. Taliaferro's estate in Orange County, Virginia lists a boy recorded as Hillyard and a woman recorded as Agnes or Aggy. Whether either is the Hilliard or the Agnes of the later Mississippi records is unproven.

Public Summary

Research hypothesis — high priority. Hilliard is reported born about 1823 in Virginia; a boy of that birth year would be about seven or eight in 1830, consistent with the low valuation on the Hillyard entry. The archive's standing hypothesis that Agnes may have been Hilliard's mother would place both in one Virginia household before either appears in Mississippi. This is not proof: neither name is uncommon, neither entry gives an age, parent or birthplace, the appraisement records no kinship at all, the line numbers and valuations differ between readings of the clerk's hand, and no document yet connects this Virginia Hillyard to the Hilliard of the William Q. Taliaferro estate in Mississippi.

Evidence Reviewed

ContextualizesContext Only
Richard H. Taliaferro names his friend William Quarles and his son George as executors, serving without surety.
Source: Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
Partially SupportsWeak
Entry 16 reads Hillyard, a boy, valued between $125 and $200. The figure and the line number differ between readings of the hand. No age, parent or birthplace is given, and no identification with Hilliard Taliaferro / Tolliver is established.
Hillyard, a boy
Source: Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
Partially SupportsWeak
Two, possibly three, entries read Aggy or Agnes; one woman appears in the later part of the list valued at about $275. No kinship to any other person in the list is recorded.
Aggy
Source: Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
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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.
Source: Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Appraisement of the personal estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Orange County estate sale, 1825 — Taliaferros as purchasers · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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.
ContextualizesContext Only
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.
Source: Will of John Taliaferro of Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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 Evidence Trail

Step 1 · Claim

A Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831

Under Investigation· 14 sources

BT-CLM-00557

Step 2 · Evidence & Source

Contextualizes · Context Only weight
Richard H. Taliaferro names his friend William Quarles and his son George as executors, serving without surety.
Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Image 149 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00565 ← BT-SRC-00559
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Image 149 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00566 ← BT-SRC-00559
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Image 149 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00567 ← BT-SRC-00559
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Image 150 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00568 ← BT-SRC-00559
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Image 149 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00569 ← BT-SRC-00559
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Pages 430-431 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00570 ← BT-SRC-00560
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Partially Supports · Weak weight
Entry 16 reads Hillyard, a boy, valued between $125 and $200. The figure and the line number differ between readings of the hand. No age, parent or birthplace is given, and no identification with Hilliard Taliaferro / Tolliver is established.
“Hillyard, a boy”
Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Page 430, entry 16 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00571 ← BT-SRC-00560
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Partially Supports · Weak weight
Two, possibly three, entries read Aggy or Agnes; one woman appears in the later part of the list valued at about $275. No kinship to any other person in the list is recorded.
“Aggy”
Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Pages 430-431 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00572 ← BT-SRC-00560
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Pages 430-431 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00573 ← BT-SRC-00560
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Appraisement of the personal estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Pages 432-433 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00574 ← BT-SRC-00561
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Page 434 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00575 ← BT-SRC-00562
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Page 434 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00576 ← BT-SRC-00562
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Orange County estate sale, 1825 — Taliaferros as purchasers · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Pages 324-325 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00577 ← BT-SRC-00563
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Will of John Taliaferro of Orange County, Virginia · Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Page 308 · Digital Image
BT-EVD-00578 ← BT-SRC-00564
Researcher interpretation · Amberly R. Carter-Mills
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.

Step 3 · Conclusion

No conclusion has been published. This remains an open research question. Can the people in Richard H. Taliaferro's 1831 estate be traced through the estate division into the households of his heirs, and from there into the William Q. Taliaferro estate?

How the Evidence Sits Together

What supports the claim

Observations that carry the claim forward.

Entry 16 reads Hillyard, a boy, valued between $125 and $200. The figure and the line number differ between readings of the hand. No age, parent or birthplace is given, and no identification with Hilliard Taliaferro / Tolliver is established.
Hillyard, a boy
Partially Supports · Weak weight
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.
Two, possibly three, entries read Aggy or Agnes; one woman appears in the later part of the list valued at about $275. No kinship to any other person in the list is recorded.
Aggy
Partially Supports · Weak weight
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.

What complicates or contradicts it

Kept in view rather than discarded.

Nothing in this column for this claim.

What only provides context

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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.
Contextualizes · Context Only weight
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.

Research Conclusion

No conclusion has been published for this claim. It remains an open research question.

Amberly's Research Notes

No research note has been published for this claim yet.

From the research notebook ofAmberly R. Carter-Mills— Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist

What We Still Need to Find

Can the people in Richard H. Taliaferro's 1831 estate be traced through the estate division into the households of his heirs, and from there into the William Q. Taliaferro estate?

Provenance, Access and Use

Source creator: Varies by record — see each source; Who made the original record.
Researcher of record: Amberly R. Carter-Mills — Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist; Located, transcribed, weighed and interpreted the evidence.
Publishing archive: BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive; Holds the object, its identifiers and its revision history.

Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia

BT-SRC-00559

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Date created: Not recorded
Repository: Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
Collection: "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch
Record form: Digital Image
Source type: Probate
Accessed: Not recorded

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Appraisement of the enslaved people in the estate of Richard H. Taliaferro

BT-SRC-00560

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Creator: Not recorded
Date created: Not recorded
Repository: Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
Collection: "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch
Record form: Digital Image
Source type: Probate
Accessed: Not recorded

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Appraisement of the personal estate of Richard H. Taliaferro

BT-SRC-00561

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Creator: Not recorded
Date created: Not recorded
Repository: Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
Collection: "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch
Record form: Digital Image
Source type: Probate
Accessed: Not recorded

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Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro

BT-SRC-00562

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Creator: Not recorded
Date created: Not recorded
Repository: Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
Collection: "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch
Record form: Digital Image
Source type: Probate
Accessed: Not recorded

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Orange County estate sale, 1825 — Taliaferros as purchasers

BT-SRC-00563

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Creator: Not recorded
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Repository: Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
Collection: "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch
Record form: Digital Image
Source type: Court Record
Accessed: Not recorded

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Will of John Taliaferro of Orange County, Virginia

BT-SRC-00564

Digital image of original recordOriginal image: Citation entered — image review pendingA photographic image of a contemporary record held by the repository named below.

Creator: Not recorded
Date created: Not recorded
Repository: Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
Collection: "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch
Record form: Digital Image
Source type: Probate
Accessed: Not recorded

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