The
Charles Taliaferro Thornton Estate Records
Submitted by Mary
Hatton 7/6/2006
Charles
Taliaferro Thornton-Will Book D-Vol. I-Pages
182-183-Dated-12th day of April 1811 and
proven in Bourbon County Court July Term 1811.
The will names his
wife Ann, and children, and the child his wife was
carrying. Executors names Anthony Thornton Jr.,
brother, and Walker Buckner, brother-in-law.
Dr.
Charles T. Thornton-Will Book D-Vol.
II-Appraisement-Pages-302-304-Dated-7th
day of September 1812 and recorded in the Bourbon
County Court September Term 1812.
Slaves
Dick-$500.00
Render-$250.00
Milly-$333.33 1/3
Mary-$150.00
Fanny-$100.00
Lucy-$333.33
Thornton-$300.00
Patience-$250.00
Charles T.
Thornton-Will Book D-Vol II. I-Pages-305-307-Dated 7th
September 1812 and recorded in the Bourbon County
September Term 1812.
No Slaves mentioned
Charles T.
Thornton-Estates Settled Book A-Part 2-Pages-289-293
6th day of November 1820 and recorded in
the Bourbon County Court November Court 1820
To paid slaves
account-$3.00
(**NOTE the
amounts of money for the slaves were almost
impossible to read even using the original court
records**)
To hire of boy
Walker to B. Mills in 1811-$52.30
To hire of Dick in
1811-$50.00
To hire of Walker
in 1812-$50.00
To hire of Walker
in 1813-$50.00
To hire of Walker
in 1814-$52.70
To hire of Dick in
1814-$60.00
To hire of Dick in
1815-$53.00
To hire of Dick in
1816-$80.70
To hire of Dick in
1817-$80.70
To hire of Dick in
1818-$100.00
To hire of Dick in
1819-$100.00
To hire of Thornton
in 1815-$
To hire of Thornton
in 1816-$50.00
To hire of Thornton
in 1817-$50.00
To hire of Thornton
in 1818-$50.00
To hire of Lucy in
1816-$15.00
To hire of Lucy in
1818-$22.30
To hire of Lucy in
1819-$15.00
By John Metcaffe
for hire of Negroes in the years of 1811, 1812,
1813, 1814 to wit-$175.00
To hire of Thornton
and Render-$ (amount illegible)
To hire of Thornton
in 1819-$50.00
Charles T.
Thornton-Estates Settled Book B-Pages-10-11-recorded
in the Bourbon County Court 5th day of
July 1824.
No slaves mentioned