Inventory and Appraisement of Seth Grandberry's Slaves - 1853

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Remembering the Grandberry Slaves
Transcribed by Linda Durr Rudd
LRudd@aol.com

Name, Age, Value

NEGRO MAN
DICK, 28 years @ $1700
BOB, 35 years @ $1200
IRA, 20 years @ $1300
ISHAM, 17 years @ $1300
CHARLES, 17 years @ $1200

NEGRO BOY
WILLIAM, 14 years @ $1000
ALBERT, 12 years @ $900
CATO, 10 years @ $800
ADISON, 11 or 16 years @ $800
MORRIS, 14 years @ $700
JOHN, 2 years @ $100
HENRY, 1 month @ $100
SPENCER, 1 year @ $150
LOUIS, 1 year @ n/a

NEGRO WOMAN and NEGRO GIRL
RACHEL, 40 years @ $400
LUCY, n/a @ $200
ANN, n/a @ $1000
EDY and CHILD, 17 years @ $1000
MARY, 17 years @ $1000
VICY, 39 years @ $800
SARAH, 17 years @ $1050
ELLEN, 7 years @ $500
MARY, 11 or 16 years @ $1000
AMY, 2 years @ $250
CANDANCE, 13 years @ $900
JANE, 24 years @ $1000
PENINA, 6 years @ $600
ADELINE, 5 years @ $600
VIOLET, 3 years @ $500
LUIZA, 17 years @ n/a
CHANEY, 3 years @ n/a
MARIAH, 45 years @ $600

SOURCE

Copiah County Probate Records
Microfilm Number: 8189
Microfilm found at Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Seth Granberry's 1853 Will

Remembering Their Names

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