An enslaved woman in the household of Dorothy Camber Walton in Pensacola, Florida.
Race is described as Negro.
Appears in Dorothy’s 1828 will, in which she bequeaths Nancy and her two daughters to her granddaughter, Octavia Celestia Valentine Walton. (Nancy had a son which was bequeathed to Dorothy’s grandson, Robert Watkins 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:
Children: Cornelia Walton*, Fanny Walton*, and Augustus Walton*
SOURCES:
Will of Dorothy Walton, 6 JAN 1828, Ancestry.com. Florida, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1827-1950 [accessed 23 APR 2021]