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Location: Early, Georgia, United States
Surnames/tags: Hightower Slavery Black_Heritage
This page's purpose is to record the enslaved people owned by Henry Allen Hightower (abt.1831-abt.1860), and attempt to connect them to their families.
- In July, 1860, Henry Allen Hightower held 39 slaves in Early County, Georgia.[1]
12 September 1860 Deed - Grantor: Henry A. Hightower / Grantee: James Salter (in trust for son, John A Hightower). Recorded in Early County, Georgia Superior Court
- Celia Hightower (abt.1810-), a woman, about 50 years of age
- Mary, a woman, about 50 years of age
- Sylvia, a woman, about 50 years of age
- Mahalah, a woman, about 23 years of age
- Linda (Mahalah's child), about 7 years of age
- Georgia Ann, a girl (Mahalah's child), about 5 years of age
- Laura, a girl (Mahalah's child), about 3 years of age
- Sandy, a boy (Mahalah's child), about 8 months old
- Charlotte, a girl about 18 years old
- Isabella, a girl about 17 years old
- Eliza, a girl about 16 years old
- Pink (Eliza's child) about 15 months old
- Sarah, a girl about 12 years old
- John, a boy about 10 years old
- Kristin about 9 years old
- Alsbern a man about 35 years old
- James a man about 30 years old
- Dick a man about 22 years old
- Frank about 2 years old
1861 - Probate Record, Early County, Georgia: Enslaved listed in Inventory and Appraisments of the Estate of Henry A. Hightower
- 11 February 1861, appraisal submitted and certified.
- 12 March 1861, recorded in Annual Returns, Volume B
Inventory No. | Name of Enslaved | Description | Appraised Value |
---|---|---|---|
1 | * Mingo | Man | $2,000 |
2 | Owen | Man | $1,500 |
3 | Anthony | Man | $1,500 |
4 | Jed | Man | $1,500 |
5 | Carson | Man | $1,200 |
6 | Boy | $700 | |
7 | Henritta | Woman | $1,400 |
7 | Mary | Child | |
8 | Rany | Girl | $1,300 |
9 | Dinah | Girl | $1,000 |
10 | Emily | Girl | $1,000 |
11 | Hami[?] | Woman | $1,700 |
11 | Deliah | Child | |
11 | Martha Ann | Child | |
[12] | Violet | Woman | $800 |
[13] | Nanc[?] | Woman | $200 |
14 | Rachell | Woman | $2,220 |
14 | Reuben | Child | |
14 | Sylla | Child | |
14 | Edmund | Child | |
[15] | Linda | Woman | $1,400 |
Milly | Child |
Sources
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Slave Schedule:
"1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules"
The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Eighth Census of the United States 1860; Series Number: M653; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 7668 #92608774 (accessed 29 October 2023)
Henry Allen Hightower, slave owner of 39 enslaved people, in 1860 in District 6, Early, Georgia, USA.
- Early County, Georgia, Deed Book L: 694. Henry A. Hightower for the indenture of enslaved people in trust for son, John A. Hightower (to James Salter, 12 September 1860); imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3Q5-W326-9?i=393 : accessed 14 November 2022) 8564264 > image 394 of 513.
- Early County, Georgia, Annual Returns, Book B, 1857-1864: 278, Inventory and appraisments, Estate of Henry A. Hightower, 11 February 1861; imaged in “Georgia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992,” Ancestry ([1](https://www.ancestry.com/): accessed 31 October 2022) > Early > Annual Returns, Vol B, 1857-1864 > image 156.
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