Blanche, Please see below. > Chris, I may be wrong, but I think the name for the probable maid servant > is Hagar, not Hagas. Were servants or slaves names not capitalized in > those days? Karen Pritchett wrote to me off list and she also figured it was Hagar. I am content with that. It kinda sounds like a slave's name! As for capitalization, we don't know whether the original scribe capitalized the word or not as what we have is a much later copy. All the other names in the document are capitalized by the transcriber. In other documents of the period capitalization was a rather hit or miss affair and I don't think much should be read into this detail. Would appreciate your (and Thurmon's view) on the slave theory. This was pretty much a guess on my part. I don't have any particular knowledge of whether slaves were bequeathed in this way. > There is one word I cannot make out clearly. It is on page 3 up 5 spaces > from the bottom of the page. It is the first word in that line. Is it > "hereby disallow and revoke"? I think it may be "utterly disallow and revoke". The meaning would be the same either way. > Sorry I have been so inactive lately. After quite a time with my back, I > recently had surgery and am on the road to recovery. Hope to contribute > more soon. I wish you a speedy recovery and send my best regards, Chris

Well the one answer I can tell you is that slaves were property and usually in the will some way or another. I saw one that not only allowed the slave to choose who to live with but gave them the right to switch owners if misused. When I have seen them named and allowed to choose it seems to indicate that they were well liked and possibly well taken care of. It is hard to say since we did not live back then, but it tends to show they thought of them as more then the horse or the slave since they named them. I think the word Blanch is having trouble with is further along in the sentence though. It says Disallow all and xxxxx other will and testament etc...I think it looks like evon but that is not a word and I cannot think of anything even close to it. Liesa Robarge BSIT University of Phoenix lroboat@email.Phoenix.edu IM's lroboat@hotmail.com lroboat - yahoo genfun101 - AOL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Sackett" <chris@sackett.org.uk> To: <SACKETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] Richard Sackett will > Blanche, > > Please see below. > > > Chris, I may be wrong, but I think the name for the probable maid servant > > is Hagar, not Hagas. Were servants or slaves names not capitalized in > > those days? > > Karen Pritchett wrote to me off list and she also figured it was Hagar. I am > content with that. It kinda sounds like a slave's name! As for > capitalization, we don't know whether the original scribe capitalized the > word or not as what we have is a much later copy. All the other names in the > document are capitalized by the transcriber. In other documents of the > period capitalization was a rather hit or miss affair and I don't think much > should be read into this detail. Would appreciate your (and Thurmon's view) > on the slave theory. This was pretty much a guess on my part. I don't have > any particular knowledge of whether slaves were bequeathed in this way. > > > There is one word I cannot make out clearly. It is on page 3 up 5 spaces > > from the bottom of the page. It is the first word in that line. Is it > > "hereby disallow and revoke"? > > I think it may be "utterly disallow and revoke". The meaning would be the > same either way. > > > Sorry I have been so inactive lately. After quite a time with my back, I > > recently had surgery and am on the road to recovery. Hope to contribute > > more soon. > > I wish you a speedy recovery and send my > best regards, > Chris > > > ==== SACKETT Mailing List ==== > Visit the SACKETT-L Web Page at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sidersn/sackett > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >