John Adriance, the administrator of the estate of C. R. Patton, asks the court to review and approve the receipts and expenditures of the estate. Adriance reports that, despite drought and loss of livestock, he has made "a good amount of valuable improvements" to the estate. The estate did, however, suffer "some loss of small negroes," and he was compelled to facilitate the removal of the slave Rachel to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he will continue to send her annual allowance. Adriance explains that "her presence near the plantation and slaves belonging to said estate was believed to have become exceedingly injurious to the interests of said estate and perhaps dangerous." He is quick to make the distinction that "in relation to this matter your Petitioner rather permitted it to be done, than procured it to be done."
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Repository: Brazoria County Courthouse, Angleton, Texas
