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Abstracts of Meriwether Taliaferro will 1818/1825
King George Co., Virginia 


1 December 1818

...my servant woman Sally and her children and increase are to have
their freedom after my death.  I give to Sally and her children $200.00,
2 mules or horses, a yoke of oxen, milk cow, two beds and furniture
including all blankets, all meat on hand, 20 barrels of corn and that my
executor have her and her children and increase emancipated...The
existence of a cruel law of this state may render it necessary to seek
for those unfortunates some more friendly quarter...

To Benjamin Franklin (son of Sally), $500.00, 1 Negro, 1 mule or horse. 
He is to have no part of what is devised to his mother and other
children...

The residue of my estate to Nappertandy, a child living with my overseer
and whom I recognize as my child by Ann Truston.  To my Friend, Mrs.
Sally Rogers (wife of overseer) $50.00 in gratitude for taking care of
this child.  

Executors:  Friend Cary Seldon of Stafford County, Alexander Hooe, John
Seymour Taliaferro, and brother John Taliaferro of King George County.

                                                                          
Meriwether Taliaferro (seal)  

My faithful old man servant Ben to have his freedom. 

Proved in King George County Court 7 July 1825.


(King George Co. Will Book 3:259-260)


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Notes:
Meriwether Taliaferro, son of John Taliaferro of Vaux Hall and Hayes
(Essex Co.), and brother of Senator John Taliaferro, Jr. of King George
Co., died at the age of 50 on 17 December 1824.  Meriwether Taliaferro
was an attorney, an officer in the War of 1812,  and a U.S. State
Senator in the House of Delegates representing the General Assembly from
King George Co., Virginia in 1810/11. 

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