In 1834, Person Davis gave his recently married son, Ransom Davis, three slave children, two boys and a girl. He also let his son have two older slaves on loan until such time when he would give him two other slaves. Following Ransom's premature death in 1835, Person Davis made an agreement with his widowed daughter-in-law, whereby he would hold the three young slaves until they were old enough to be hired out; then when Ransom's daughter, Maria, reached twenty-one he would "account to her for them & [their] hire" as her distributive share of her father's estate. Person Davis never settled the estate and when he died, in 1856, the slaves constituted a sizeable property, the female slave, Margaret, having given birth to several children. In 1860, at the time Maria Davis, now married to Benjamin Reisor, sues the numerous heirs of her grandfather's estate, the slaves who have increased to eleven are valued at nearly nine thousand dollars. She seeks possession of the slaves as well as compensation equal to their past hire.
Result: Settled.
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Repository: Talladega County Judicial Building, Talladega, Alabama