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Notice of Estate Ownership Dispute Concerning Enslaved People
Gallatin Argus · 23 March 1855 · Repository pending confirmation
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Other enslaved people are named alongside Hilliard in the same notice: Joe, Ellis, Horace, Richard, Ann, Moses, Aggy, Paul, Anthony, and Agnes and her children. The notice does not state any relationship between them.
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- BT-EVD-00130Named Entry
Hilliard is named in a published notice of a dispute concerning the ownership of enslaved people.
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Other enslaved people are named alongside Hilliard in the same notice: Joe, Ellis, Horace, Richard, Ann, Moses, Aggy, Paul, Anthony, and Agnes and her children. The notice does not state any relationship between them.
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Hilliard is named in a published notice of a dispute concerning the ownership of enslaved people.
BT-EVD-00130
Gallatin Argus; Notice of Estate Ownership Dispute Concerning Enslaved People; Gallatin Argus; Copiah County, Mississippi; Repository pending confirmation.
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Hilliard remained in Taliaferro estate proceedings through 1855.
Two separate 1855 court documents name Hilliard and record a valuation of $1,000.
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Notice of Estate Ownership Dispute Concerning Enslaved People
BT-SRC-00116- Creator
- Gallatin Argus
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- 23 March 1855
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- Repository pending confirmation
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Rights status pending confirmation. Published legal notice concerning a dispute over ownership of enslaved people.
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Gallatin Argus; Notice of Estate Ownership Dispute Concerning Enslaved People; Gallatin Argus; Repository pending confirmation; Copiah County, Mississippi.
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Carter-Mills, Amberly R. "Notice of Estate Ownership Dispute Concerning Enslaved People." BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive. Version not yet assigned. Object BT-SRC-00116. Accessed 2026-09-24. /source/BT-SRC-00116.
Attribution: Amberly R. Carter-Mills, Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist.
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