Malinda Jerrald requests that the court appoint her as guardian of her daughter. She has served in that capacity in South Carolina for the past ten years, and now has moved to the state of Alabama. Her daughter, Sarah Martha Jerrald, owns eight slaves worth almost thirty-five hundred dollars. Malinda Jerrald does not specify the reason for which her daughter is need of a guardian; whether she is a minor, an unmarried woman, or a person not capable of managing her person and estate for some other reason. In the property inventory report mandated by the court, the sex of one slave may have been incorrectly identified. Maranda or Miranda is identified as a boy. In a related petition, filed after Sarah's death ten years later, the same slaves, with the exception of a man named Reddick, are listed as part of her estate; Maranda is listed as Maranza, a girl.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Pike County Courthouse, Troy, Alabama
