An enslaved man in the household of Dorothy Camber Walton in Pensacola, Florida.
Race is described as Negro.
Appears in Dorothy’s 1828 will, listed among the property left to her granson, Robert Watkins Walton. Augustus was described as a son of Nancy, an enslaved Negro woman in the same household. (Nancy and her two daughters were bequeathed to Dorothy’s other grandchild, Octavia Celestia Valentine Walton.)
Dorothy named her son, Florida Territorial Governor George Walton, Jr., and her friend, John H. Walker of Alabama, as guardians of her grandchildren and their inherited property.
FAMILY:
Mother: Nancy Walton*
Siblings: Cornelia Walton* and Fanny Walton*
SOURCES:
Will of Dorothy Walton, 6 JAN 1828, Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1827-1950 [accessed 23 APR 2021]