Henry C. and Louisa C. King, administrators of the estate of the late John B. Brown, ask the court's permission to sell a fifty-two-year-old slave named Isaac "belonging to said Estate." The Kings charge that Isaac is "a negro of bad character and hard to control and the citizens in the neighborhood do not wish him to be kept in the Country." They further report that the said slave "resisted your petitioner Henry C King to such an extent that your petitioner deemed it necessary to put him Jail where he now is." Citing that Isaac cannot be hired “to anyone,” the petitioners "think the estate would be more benefitted by a sale than to keep in Jail." They therefore pray that they be granted "an order to sell said negro at private or public sale."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Jackson County Courthouse, Marianna, Florida
