Friday, December 23, 2016

From the Probate files: Jeremiah Warren Part 14, Account Current - January 26, 1835

Once again the executors of Great Uncle Jeremiah Warren's estate filed a report with the Probate Court which included a list of enslaved persons and who hired them for the year.


["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-893G-8V9M?cc=1999178&wc=9SYB-7M3%3A267654601%2C267802801 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > image 250 of 376;
county probate courthouses, Georgia.]


Acc't. hiring of the Negroes belonging to the Estate of Jeremiah
     Warren dec'd. for 1833, to wit,
     Jack            to    Jno. Graybill                            105.00
     Hal              "     Wm. Warren                            100.00
     Anderson    "             do                                     100.00
     Meredith     "     R. Warren                                100.00
     Lucy           "             do                                       40.00
     Lethe          "     Mary Warren                              35.00
     Edmund     "     P. Equals                                    100.00
     Dave          "     Geo. W. Butts                            100.00
     Abram       "      Jno. Graybill & J.G. Butts          65.00
     Amy & 3 children " Jno. Arnold Jr.                     45.00
                                                                              $790.00

Hancock County
     Jno. Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Executors &c. being duly
sworn says that the above acc't. hiring &c. is just & true
Sworn to & subscriber before
this 26th day of Jan'y 1835                    John Graybill
     Henry Rogers C.C.O.                         Jesse G. Butts             

Compared with the hiring list for 1833 we can see that Jack and Hal are the only ones to be hired by the same people. Two of Jeremiah's siblings, Mary and Robert, were among the hirers this time. Abram was hired by Graybill and Butts jointly, perhaps to work on the plantation Jeremiah set aside in his will for the benefit of the seven slaves he hoped to see freed within five years? There's no mention of Tom, described as "insane" on the 1833 list but it could be that the $10 coffin bought from John H. Breedlove in the previous year's accounting was for him. John Arnold was also a resident of Hancock County but I've not been able to find any mention of P. Equals in census records.


["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-893G-8V9M?cc=1999178&wc=9SYB-7M3%3A267654601%2C267802801 : 20 May 2014), Hancock > image 250 of 376;
county probate courthouses, Georgia.]


John Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Exor's 
1834        In acc't. current with the Est of Jere'h. Warren dec'd
Aug't. 26 To balance pr. acc't rend'd.                                         $ 1974.02-3/4
                " am't. rec''d. upon a final distribution of the assets of }
                  A. Slaughter & C. Labuzan                                        }  75.94
                " " rec'd. J. choice note $24. In't. on do 6.27                    30.27
               " Hire of Negroes for 1834 per acc't rend'd.                    790.00
                                                                                                   $2870.23-3/4
                                                        Cr
               By Cash paid Epps W. Warren                              1          20.34
               "    Eliz'th. Warren                                                 2          21.62-1/2
               "     do  paid   William Warren                               3          31.26
               "      do   "      George Amoss                                 4            3.14
               "      do   " Cha's. Jenkins Atty Com'n collecting   5            3.75
               "      do  " for recording this acc't, & acc't. hiring negroes  1.75
               "  Com'n. on 896.21 am't. rec'd.                           22.40
               "      "        "  81.86-1/2 " paid acct                         2.04     24.44
               " am't. Bal'ce' due                                                           2763.93-1/4
                                                                                                     $2870.23-3/4
Georgia Hancock County
      John Graybill & Jesse G. Butts Exoc's of &c. of Jerem-
iah Warren dec'd being duly sworn says the above acct
current is just & true                                                        
Sworn to & subscribed before               John Graybill
this 26th day of Jan'y 1835                   Jesse G. Butts       
     Henry Rogers C.C.O.    

Census records show that George Amos and Charles Jenkins were residents of Hancock County too.



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