Who Bought Hilliard?

Who purchased Hilliard in the 1856 sale recorded in the Taliaferro estate settlement?

DOCUMENTED: Hilliard was sold in 1856 for $1,200 according to the estate settlement. INFERENCE: later records associate Hilliard with H. G. D. Brown. UNRESOLVED: whether H. G. D. Brown was the actual buyer in the 1856 sale. POSSIBLE PATHWAY: Chicot County, Arkansas and Copiah County, Mississippi transaction records involving Susan Ann Chapman Taliaferro Read and H. G. D. Brown. A derivative 1860 transcription reporting Brown as holding 46 enslaved people is context only and identifies no one.

• Documented

  Hilliard was sold in 1856 for $1,200.

  A settlement record documents the transaction, its year, and its amount.

• Under Investigation

  Was H. G. D. Brown the buyer of Hilliard in the 1856 sale?

  Brown is a plausible buyer on later evidence. The sale record itself does not identify him.

No analysis has been published for this investigation yet.