Friday, January 26, 2018

Friends of Friends Friday~Hall Hudson's Will-Releasing Gray

Friends of Friends Friday is a blogging prompt from Geneabloggers Tribe to give the community an opportunity to transcribe the names of the enslaved as they come across them while researching and put them online.



When my 5th great grandfather Hall Hudson  (Abt. 1708-1778) from Amelia County, Virginia wrote his will on 13 March 1778 he left to his son Peter Hudson "one negro man named Gray".
Interestingly, the two signatures at the bottom are people with the surname Gray. A coincidence? Probably not.

Henry's will can be found on pages 10 and 11 of the Amelia County, Virginia Will Book, 1780-86.

Hall Hudson 
Will
pg. 10

Amelia Virginia, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1963”, database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 26 January 2017), image for Hall Hudson, 13 March 17, 1778, will, Amelia County Will Book no. 3, 1780-86, pg. 10-11, citing “Will Books, Vol 2-3, 1771-1786”


Hall Hudson
Will
pg. 11
Amelia Virginia, “Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1652-1963”, database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 26 January 2017), image for Hall Hudson, 13 March 17, 1778, will, Amelia County Will Book no. 3, 1780-86, pg. 10-11, citing “Will Books, Vol 2-3, 1771-1786”


This post will be added to The Slave Name Roll Project in hopes Gray's family will be able to find him and connect him with his family.

Have you located the names of the enslaved in your family's records? Please consider releasing their names by either writing a post about them and placing the link on the Slave Name Roll Project website or leaving a comment on their blog. Please include the enslaved person(s) names, the name of the owner with the source information for the document including date and location.
Their descendants are looking and they want to be found. Together we can help them reunite.

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