Chaney (Gilliam) Winston (abt. 1810)

Born about 1810 in Georgia, United States

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Biography

Chaney (Gilliam) Winston is a part of US Black heritage.

Chaney lived in Greene County, Georgia. She was a slave owned by Robert Gilliam. Chaney's year of birth is about 1810. This is consistent with the 1820 census, with Chaney being counted in the group of females under 14.

At Robert's death Chaney was listed in the probate inventory in 1821.

The distribution of enslaved persons in the Robert Gilliam estate was as follows:

Violet and Comfort to Josiah E Maddox (half brother in law to Robert)

Park and Mary to Thomas Wilbourn (half brother to Robert)

Booker and Pleasant to Polly Stovall (half sister to Robert)

Nancy and Prudence to Jack Wilburn (half brother to Robert)

The remaining enslaved persons went to Sucky Gilliam: [[Gilliam-2288

|Bush]], Handy, Caroline, Jenny, Lotte, Cherry, Chaney, Silvy, Betty, Peter, Lawson, Charles, Jim, Frank, and Nimrod.

Transcription of receipt:

Received on Twenty first of March One thousand Eight hundred and Twenty One of Lodowick Alford and Jack Wilburn administrators with the wife annexed of the last Will and Testament of Robert Gilliam late of Green County Dec'd. fifteen negroes (to wit), Bush a boy, Handy a boy, Caroline and Jinny, Lotte Cherry and Chaney all girls, Silvey and Betty women Peter Losson and Charly men, Jim, Frank and Nimod all boys together with the tract of Land on which Sd R Gilliam lived with the stock of Horses, hogs, Cattle and sheep, household and Kitchen furniture with every thing appertaining to sd premises in full of a legacy bequeathed me in the last will and Testament of the sd Robt Gilliam

S C Gilliam attest John Park

Chaney was distributed to Susan Cade Alford widow of Robert Gilliam. Susan married Thomas Johnson Winston in 1824. Chaney would have been counted among the Winston slaves in 1830 and recorded in Greene County, Georgia.

Chaney would have been counted among the Winston slaves in 1840, when the Thomas Johnson Winston family was residing in Troup County Georgia. This would be true again in 1850.

Chaney would have been counted among those enslaved by Thomas Johnson Winston, in West Point, Troup, Georgia, USA in the 1860 census.

She was mentioned in the will of Thomas Johnson Winston. The will was written in 1855 and probated in 1864.

Per Thomas Winston will: 2nd I give to my beloved wife Susan,... To wit, Old Peter, James, Lotty and her son Johnson, Cherry and her son, Ellick, Nimrod, Caroline together with ...her...increase, Barbara, Those slaves came by her,...

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Slave Owners

• Robert Gilliam

• Susan Cade Alford

• Thomas Johnson Winston

Sources

1. ↑ Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990: "Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990"
   Catalog: Inventories, appraisements and sales of estates, 1798-1893 Inventories, appraisements, sales, v. H-I 1814-1831
   Image path: Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990 > Greene > Inventories and appraisements 1814-1831 vol H-I > image 171 of 522; Citing Houston County Probate Court Judge, Georgia.
   FamilySearch Image (accessed 30 March 2022)
   • 1821 Inventory Bk H p.253

• 1820 Census of Robert Gilliam [1]

• 1830 Census [2]

• 1840 Census [3]

• 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedule [4]