Due to the condition of the "stock & utensils, farming implements, age, number and Condition of the negroes," Calvin A. Harris, administrator of the estate of Napoleon B. Mitchell, deceased, explains, "it is not to the interest of the Estate, or of those interested therein, to keep up and Continue the plantation." Harris notes that the proceeds from the "growing & made crop of cotton corn & fodder, now gathering, will in all probability ... reduce the outstanding debts to about the sum of two thousand." In order to satisfy the creditors' debts still remaining, Harris seeks to sell the perishable property and several slaves, including "Stephen, Mourning (a woman) George her son & Peter."
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Repository: Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama
