Benjamin H. Craig, administrator of the estate of John H. Walker, deceased, submits his annual settlement of the estate. He refers to an earlier petition in which he requested the sale of some "worthless negroes" in order to pay debts. Only one slave was sold, he explains, and the proceeds went to pay taxes imposed by the Confederate government. Craig complains that in 1864 an abundant crop was largely destroyed by an "early rise in the Alabama river." Further, the present crop was destroyed when the "United States forces passing by the plantation on their way to Montgomery destroyed almost every thing on the plantation so that now the estate is wholly insolvent nothing being left but the land." Craig prays that the court will allow him to be released from his duties as administrator after an examination of his account.
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Repository: Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama
