Valuation of Poplar Forest Slaves by Richard Walker and Joel Yancey, [January 1823]
Valuation of Poplar Forest Slaves by Richard Walker and Joel Yancey
[Jan. 1823]
Fr. Eppes.
| Maria & 2 children | 600 | ||
| George
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275 | ||
| Phill | 400 | ||
| Edmond | 300 | ||
| James Hanahs [. . .] | 300 | ||
| Hanah | 175 | ||
| 20501 | |||
| Henry
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275 |  |
1215 32652 |
| < |
340 | ||
| Sally & young chld | |||
| Billy—[. . .] | 600 |
MS (ViU: TJP-ER); on verso of reused address cover of Bernard Peyton to TJ, 16 May 1822; written mostly in pencil in Yancey’s hand; two words illegible; with related calculations by Yancey in pencil at foot of text and in right margin in ink in Thomas Jefferson Randolph’s hand; endorsed by Randolph: “Valuation of Negroes at Poplar Forest between T Jefferson & F Eppes by R Walker & Joel Yancey Jany 1823.”
Richard Walker (1761–1834), farmer, was born in Virginia but spent some years in Tennessee before settling in Bedford County by 1820. At his death he owned personal property valued at $7,657.37, including at least 29 slaves (Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 14 [1932]: 27; DNA: RG 29, CS, Bedford Co., 1820, 1830; Bedford Co. Will Book, 8:331–2, 389–90; gravestone inscription in Walker family cemetery, Forest, Bedford Co.).
The names of the enslaved people on this list represent different branches of the Hubbard family. The 2 children were probably Isaac and Dolly. The young chld was probably Nancy.
In a letter of 2 Oct. 1822 written from Liberty to her grandson Nicholas P. Trist, Elizabeth Trist criticized the treatment of slaves at Poplar Forest: “I mention’d in my last that Mr Jefferson had not disposed of any of his land at the Forest and has put it under better regulations than it had been but I fear the poor Negroes fare hard I wish they were as well treated as Mr Tournillons are” (RC in DLC: NPT).
1. Total added in ink in Randolph’s hand.
2. Yancey’s illegible total corrected in ink by Randolph.
Index Entries
- Billy (TJ’s slave; b.1808; Sarah [Sally] Hubbard’s son); valuation of search
- Dolly (TJ’s slave; b.1812); valuation of search
- Edmund (TJ’s slave; b.1809); valuation of search
- Eppes, Francis Wayles (TJ’s grandson); and Poplar Forest slaves search
- Hannah (Hanah) (TJ’s slave; b.1770); family of search
- Hannah (Hanah) (TJ’s slave; b.1770); valuation of search
- Henry (TJ’s slave; b.1812); valuation of search
- Hubbard, Sarah (Sally) (TJ’s slave; b.1788); family of search
- Isaac (TJ’s slave; b.1809); valuation of search
- Jamey (Jamy) (TJ’s slave; b.1805); valuation of search
- Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1776); children of search
- Maria (TJ’s slave; b.1776); valuation of search
- Nancy (TJ’s slave;1818); valuation of search
- Phill (Phil) (TJ’s slave; b.1808); valuation of search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); and F. W. Eppes search
- Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); slaves at search
- Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (TJ’s grandson; Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph’s husband); as manager of Poplar Forest search
- Sally (Sal) (TJ’s slave; b.1777); family of search
- Sally (Sal) (TJ’s slave; b.1777); valuation of search
- slaves; treatment of search
- slaves; valuation of search
- Tournillon, Etienne St. Julien de; slaves of search
- Trist, Elizabeth House; correspondence with N. P. Trist search
- Trist, Elizabeth House; on treatment of slaves search
- Trist, Nicholas Philip; correspondence with E. Trist search
- Walker, Richard; identified search
- Walker, Richard; Valuation of Poplar Forest Slaves by search
- Welsh, George (TJ’s slave); valuation of search
- Yancey, Joel (d.1833); Valuation of Poplar Forest Slaves by search