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

• BT-EVD-00571ProbatePage 430, entry 16

  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”

  Partly supportsA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831
• BT-EVD-00570ProbatePages 430-431

  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.

  No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this observation yet.

  Gives context toA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831
• BT-EVD-00572ProbatePages 430-431

  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”

  Partly supportsA Hillyard and an Agnes in the same Virginia estate, 1831
• BT-EVD-00573ProbatePages 430-431

  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.

  No verbatim wording has been transcribed for this observation yet.

  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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