As executors of Great Uncle Jeremiah's will, John Graybill and Jesse G. Butts were required to report to the probate court annually. The excerpt from probate records shown below accounts for 14 of Jeremiah's enslaved persons who were hired out for the year 1833.
["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-30371-14244-60?cc=1999178 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > Wills and administration records 1831-1840 vol N >
image 153 of 376; county probate courthouses, Georgia.]
Hire of Negroes belonging to the estate of Jeremiah Warren dec'd
for 1833 to wit,
John Graybill Man Jack $80.00
Benjamin Harper do Edmund 70.00
William Warren do Hal 75.00
Eppes Warren do Meredith 75.00
Prestley Harper do Anderson 70.00
Wyatt Harper do Dave 70.00
William Warren Women Lucy & Lethe 60.00
Chloe Roe do Amey & 3 children 20.00
William Stembridge Man Abram 50.00
William Warren do Tom (insane) for food & clothing -----
$570.00
Georgia Hancock County
John Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Exec. of E. of Jerem-
iah Warren dec'd. being duly sworn says that the within
acct. of the hiring of the negroes belonging to the estate
of said de'cd for the year 1833 is just & true.
Sworn to & subscribed before
me this 29th. May 1833 } John Graybill
Henry Rogers C.C.O. } Jesse G. Butts
Below are the appraised values of these enslaved persons taken from the inventory of Jeremiah's estate which had been filed with the probate court on September 25, 1832.
Amy [a woman & her] four [children] Matt Caroline Joby & Mason* 1000.00
Abram a man 400.00
Tom a man 50.00
Lucy " woman 250.00
Letha " girl 400.00
Dave a man 575.00
Meredith a man 600.00
Hal a man 575.00
Edmund a man 600.00
Jack " " 600.00
Jeremiah's brother William Warren agreed to provide food and clothing Tom who's described as "insane" which would explain why the man's appraised value was the lowest on the list.
Most of the people named as hirers are familiar ones--family** and neighbors who we've seen buying items from Jeremiahs' estate but there's a new one: Chloe Roe as her name is written here.***
Chloe Roe (1763-1845) was the widow of Revolutionary War veteran John Roe (although her application for a widow's pension was denied). The couple were early settlers in Hancock County and their farmhouse, built in 1804, still survives and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was moved from its original location to Milledgeville in Baldwin County in the early 1980s.
[The John Roe House-Specht Farm. Photos from its Facebook page]
So this is a house that Amey and her children would have seen, at least from the outside, during the year they were hired by Mrs. Roe.
*There's no indication which of Amey's four children wasn't included here and why not. You may recall that Jeremiah's codicil stated, "also it is my wish that my negroe woman Amey shall have fifty dollars to be paid when the final division takes place" so although she wasn't one of the seven people he hoped to see freed he did single her out for a bequest.
**I can't help wondering how Jeremiah, who didn't want his nephew Eppes Warren to benefit from the sale of any of his human property, would have responded to Eppes being allowed to hire Meredith for 1833.
***Alternate spellings include Row or Rowe.
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