From the Probate files: Jeremiah Warren Part 12, Receipt for Bequest to William Warren

The fourth bequest listed in great uncle Jeremiah Warren's will of 1832 was to his brother William who was to receive land and two enslaved persons:

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch, Hancock > Wills and administration records 1831-1840 vol N > image 78 of 376; county probate courthouses, Georgia]

Item 4th.  I give my brother William Warren plantation whereon I now
live and all the money that he now owes me and a negro man named
Pomp and a negro girl named Rilar that now is with my Mother.

And here are the appraised values assigned to those two slaves in inventory of Jeremiah's estate and the note executed by William as listed in the account of his money and notes filed with the Probate Court.

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-30371-16129-19?cc=1999178 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > Wills and administration records 1831-1840 vol N; county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93G-8JZH?cc=1999178&wc=9SYB-7M3%3A267654601%2C267802801 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > image 108 of 376;

county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

On March 11, 1833 William formally acknowledged receipt of Pomp and Rilah and the note representing his loan that Jeremiah forgave him in his bequest.

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93G-8JMK?cc=1999178&wc=9SYB-7M3%3A267654601%2C267802801 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > image 151 of 376; county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

Received of John GrayBill and Jesse G Butts Exrs of the last will & testament of
     Jeremiah Warren late of Hancock County dec'd two Negroes Pomp a man and
     Rilah a woman they being the negroes bequeathed by said dec'd in his said last
     will to me & I do bind myself my heirs & assigns to forever acquit the
     said John & Jesse of any claim that may be raised or attempted to be raised
     to said negroes. Also one note made the second of February 1829 due the
     fourth of February 1830 it being also given to me by said Will this 11th
     March 1833.
                                      William Warren

In the 1840 Georgia Property Tax Digest, William Warren's listed property included 25 enslaved persons but it's impossible to tell if Pomp and Rilah were among them.

[Militia District Number: 101, 1840. Ancestry.com. Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Original data: Georgia Tax Digests [1890]. 140 volumes. Morrow, Georgia: Georgia Archives.]

The 1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule listed 59 men, women and children as the human property of William Warren, but again none of their names were recorded.

However William Warren's will, admitted to probate on January 9, 1860, mentions four men including Pompey in a bequest for the benefit of his niece Delilah (Warren) Breedlove (c1813-1860)* and her children along with a 500-acre plantation given by Jeremiah Warren for their "sole and separate use."

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G935-V82K?cc=1999178&wc=9SBM-GPF%3A267654601%2C267833701 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > image 171 of 586;

county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

William only named a few of his slaves in his will and Rilah wasn't one of them. I spent several hours today looking through the pages of the Probate Court records for the inventory of his estate but I haven't found it yet.**


*She was the daughter of his brother Robert Warren (1783-1851). Delilah and her husband Nathaniel G Breedlove had seven children, three sons and four daughters.

**Usually the inventory happens not long after probate is given but there's no trace of William's in the subsequent 200 pages.



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