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Winnefred (Winny) Hubbard was born a slave in Richmond, Virginia, about 1800. She was purchased in Richmond by a slave dealer who brought her to New Orleans and sold her in 1818 to Magloire Guichard, a widower with young children. In 1835, when Hubbard was 28, Guichard emancipated her, noting especially his gratitude for her service to his daughter Dozarie. (She would later be godmother to one of Dozarie’s daughters.)

Hubbard formed a long-term relationship with Daniel Clark Osborn, who came to Louisiana from Ohio around 1820 and became a sugar plantation manager in Barataria in Jefferson Parish. Together they had three children and, over the years, amassed a large estate, kept in Hubbard’s name so their children could inherit. When she died in 1862, she owned land and slaves in Jefferson Parish near Bayou des Familles valued at more than $37,000. She also owned real estate in Orleans Parish worth another $30,000. These pages from the inventory of her estate show a portion of her New Orleans property.

(Succession of W. Hubbard, 1862. Orleans Parish Second District Court, #19231;
transferred to Orleans Parish Civil District Court, #69088)