Slaves from John Culver Estate Inventory

Date: 26 Jun 1846 to 19 Nov 1849
Location: Union, Kentucky, United States
Surname/tag: Culver, King, Floyd, Buckman

Sources

1847 John Culver Estate Inventory. Kentucky, Union County, Will Book B, pp. 221-224, County Court. Digital images 116-118 of 462, FamilySearch ([1]: accessed 16 May 2021)

1846 John Culver Estate Sale. Kentucky, Henderson County, Wills, vol. D, pp. 224-229, County Court. 26 June 1846, digital images 115-117 of 161, FamilySearch ([2]: accessed 11 February 2022)

Slaves from Inventory

Culver, J Inventory
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1 negro boy named Louis $550
1 negro boy named Troy $500
1 negro Girl named Maria & child $400
1 negro Girl named Milly & child $450
1 negro Girl named Lucy $200
1 negro boy named Henry $450
1 negro Girl named Ary $250
1 negro Boy named Tom $200
1 negro Boy named Eli $150
1 negro Boy named Day $85
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We hereby certify that the foregoing List and prices is the appraisement of the goods & chattels belonging to the estate of John Culver deceased made by us according to law- Signed this 16th day of August 1847
The. B. Spalding
John Hite
John Payne Jr.

At a County Court holden for Union County at the Courthouse in Morganfield on the 19th of November 1849 this Inventory & appraisement of the Estate of John Culver deceased was returned into Court by the Commissioners and was by the Court, ordered to be recorded which was done accordingly--
Attest James R. Hughes C.U.C.C.

Culver J additional Inventory
An additional Inventory of John Culver dec’d returned by Nicholas Culver Executor of said estate.
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To Hire of Lucy from 17th day July to 25th Dec’r 1846 S.P. King $5.12
To Hire of Nelly from 17th day July to 25th Dec’r 1846 John Floyd $6.62
To Hire of Maria from 17th day July to 25th Dec’r 1846 N. Culver $11.37
To Hire of Henry from 17th day July to 25th Dec’r 1846 J. B. Buckman $16.--
To Hire of Tom from 17th day July to 25th Dec’r 1846 N. Culver $0.62
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N. W. Culver Exor of John Culver

Slaves from Estate Sale

1 negro man Lewis sold to Mary Griggs for $522
1 negro man Troy sold to John Floyd for $585.25
1 negro man [should be woman] Maria & child sold to Simon P. King for $500
1 negro woman Lucy sold to Nicholas Culver for $50
1 negro man Tom sold to Simon P. King for $150.50
1 negro man Henry sold to Nicholas Culver for $512.50
1 negro man Eli sold to John Ann Berry for $136.50
1 negro man David sold to S. P. King for $85
Half the value of Ary willed to M. Griggs $125