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1884 Personal Property Tax Entry — Hilliard Talliaferro, Spencers Mill

County tax assessor (jurisdiction confirmation pending) · 1884 · Repository pending confirmation

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    The 1884 entry records Hilliard Talliaferro with or in association with C. A. Talliferro at Spencers Mill. The record does not state the relationship between them.

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    An 1884 tax entry records Hilliard Talliaferro as owning cattle, a mule, and a carriage or wheeled vehicle.

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County tax assessor (jurisdiction confirmation pending); 1884 Personal Property Tax Entry — Hilliard Talliaferro, Spencers Mill; Personal property tax rolls; Jurisdiction pending confirmation; Repository pending confirmation.

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    Hilliard accumulated taxable personal property after emancipation.

    Personal property is recorded in tax rolls. No entered tax record lists land, and none establishes landownership.

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    Who was C. A. Talliferro?

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1884 Personal Property Tax Entry — Hilliard Talliaferro, Spencers Mill

BT-SRC-00122
Evidentiary weight 3 of 4. Digital image of original recordOriginal image: Citation entered — image review pendingA photographic image of a contemporary record held by the repository named below.
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County tax assessor (jurisdiction confirmation pending)
Date created
1884
Repository
Repository pending confirmation
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Personal property tax rolls
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Tax
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Rights status pending confirmation. Entry under review; recorded in association with C. A. Talliferro.

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County tax assessor (jurisdiction confirmation pending); 1884 Personal Property Tax Entry — Hilliard Talliaferro, Spencers Mill; Personal property tax rolls; Repository pending confirmation; Jurisdiction pending confirmation.

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Carter-Mills, Amberly R. "1884 Personal Property Tax Entry — Hilliard Talliaferro, Spencers Mill." BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive. Version not yet assigned. Object BT-SRC-00122. Accessed 2026-09-24. /source/BT-SRC-00122.

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