Will of Richard H. Taliaferro, Orange County, Virginia

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  Richard H. Taliaferro names his friend William Quarles and his son George as executors, serving without surety.

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  Gives context toA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831
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  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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  Gives context toA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831
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  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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  Gives context toA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831
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  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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  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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  Gives context toA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831

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

  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.

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