Petition #10181701

Abstract

Slaveholder William B. Burney was murdered by a slave. He died intestate, and one-half of his property, including seven "Negroes of different ages and sires," escheated to the territory. Mary Burney, the widow, claiming that "the greater part of their Property was obtained and accumulated" by their "joint industry and economy," asks that the government not deprive an "Aged Widow of Property she had laboured with her deceased husband to acquire."

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Repository: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

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