Petition #20284902

Abstract

John Pelham, guardian of Charles and Isabella Pelham, asks permission to sell the slave Milly and her child. Milly was willed to the minors by Socrates Shepperd in 1843 and has since given birth to two children, one of whom has died. Pelham states that the slaves "are not as useful nor profitable as the money would be if judiciously invested ... in other slaves more profitable to the said heirs."

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Repository: Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Arkansas

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