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Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
Virginia. County Court (Orange County) · Sworn 28 March 1831 · Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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- BT-EVD-00575ProbatePage 434
Estate totals: enslaved people $11,200.00; personal estate not including them $3,215.25; real estate directed to be sold $3,557.25; total $17,972.50. Nearly two thirds of this estate's appraised value was the value placed on human beings.
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- BT-EVD-00576ProbatePage 434
Elmwood, surveyed by Reuben Lindsay on 28 March 1823 at 395 and one quarter acres, valued at nine dollars per acre. Appraisers William C. Willis, Robert Taylor Jr and Thomas Scott, sworn before the justice Ambrose Madison; certified by George G. Taliaferro, executor, and ordered recorded at the quarterly court.
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Estate totals: enslaved people $11,200.00; personal estate not including them $3,215.25; real estate directed to be sold $3,557.25; total $17,972.50. Nearly two thirds of this estate's appraised value was the value placed on human beings.
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Elmwood, surveyed by Reuben Lindsay on 28 March 1823 at 395 and one quarter acres, valued at nine dollars per acre. Appraisers William C. Willis, Robert Taylor Jr and Thomas Scott, sworn before the justice Ambrose Madison; certified by George G. Taliaferro, executor, and ordered recorded at the quarterly court.
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Virginia. County Court (Orange County); Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro; "Orange, Virginia, United States records," images, FamilySearch; Orange County, Virginia; Page 434; image Image 227 of 569; FHL film 007645708; Virginia. County Court (Orange County); accessed 2026-08-26.
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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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Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro
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- Virginia. County Court (Orange County)
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- Sworn 28 March 1831
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Carter-Mills, Amberly R. "Aggregate appraisement and return to court, estate of Richard H. Taliaferro." BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive. Version not yet assigned. Object BT-SRC-00562. Accessed 2026-09-24. /source/BT-SRC-00562.
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