Petition #20185630

• Dallas County, Alabama. filing started December 30, 1856.
• Court: Probate
• Salutation: To the Hon Thomas G. Rainer Judge of the Probate Court of said County

Abstract

James L. Evans, guardian of the estate of Margaret T. K. Gayle, a minor, asks to sell a "vicious and dishonest" slave named Watt, who "lately has become so wicked as to tend to corrupt and demoralize the other slaves." Watt is now in jail "to prevent any intercourse between him & said other slaves."

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: PARs #20185330, #20185706
• Pages of related documents: 0

3 people are documented within petition 20185630

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama

• Records of the Probate Court, Estates

Subjects

• Jails/Workhouses
• Insubordination
• Enslaver (minors)