Knox County probate record for John Woolverton, 1835

Description:	The probate record for John Woolverton, 1835 is in Box 21 of the probate records archive at the Knox County Public Library’s McGrady-Brockman House. There are six separate files for Woolverton. In file 1 are ledgers naming people owing a balance to the estate. The names listed as people of color are as follows (many are listed with first name only) Brooks, Peer Cottie, Edmond, Jonathon Taylor, Nero, Toussaint, Anis, Frank, Joseph Hoffman, London, Newton, and Pompey Hubbs. File 2 has documents of doctor visits to the Wolverton home from 1825 to 1831 listing family members treated and other people with first names or “man”, “lady”, “boy” documented, possibly indicating they were people of color. Over these years 19 different doctors visited and treated people at this estate. File 3 has multiple doctor bills for visits and treatments to people at Wolverton Estate. Bills for family members were listed as “self” indicating John, “wife, daughter, son” and others listed as “boy, man, lady, or child”, possibly to be people of color. The terms “colored or “negro” sometimes appeared but were not consistent due to the number of doctors who had their own styles of documentation on visits. There is a bill from Jack Waller to the estate, but it is unclear what the bill is for. In file 4 are multiple visits and medicine for patients listed as “child”, “boy” “Fanny”, “negro boy”, “Kerky, old man” when others are identified as son, daughter, wife, etc. indicating family members. Another bill from Rev. Lawrence Scott to the estate of Woolverton charges $6.00 for “visit black woman”. In file 5 a document titled “The Estate of John D. Woolverton to Soloman Shuler listing purchases made from 1825-1831. On the second page of the document is stated “Amount brought forward as $47.35. Under that is the last entry which reads “To 6 weeks hire negro girl, $3.90” with a total of $50.35. In file 6 are several bills to the estate for doctor visits to family members who are named. Among the list of visits first names of “Lady”,”Whitmore”, as well as “child” and “boy”. Since the doctors listed children of Woolverton as son or daughter and usually by their given name, it appears that the other names or words are possibly referring to people of color who lived or worked at the estate.
Origin:	1835
Contributor(s):	Woolverton, John; Brooks; Cottee, Piere; Cottie, Piere; Cottie, Peer; Chamber, Betsey; Chambers, Betsey;Edmond; Taylor, Jonathon; Nero; Toussaint; Anis; Frank; Huffman, Joseph; Hoffman, Joseph; London, Newtron; Hubbs, Pompei; Kerky; Shuler, Soloman; Scott, Lawrence; Whitmore; Fanny; Waller, Jack;
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/44992
Collection:	Knox County Public Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States
Geography:	Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	Black people -- America -- History African Americans -- History Black people -- History Slave records Slave labor Slavery Slaveholders Enslaved women Enslaved men Slavery -- Law and legislation Indentured servants Indiana -- Northwest Indiana -- History Vincennes (Ind.) Knox County (Ind.)

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