Richard Henry Stokes is the guardian for his minor brother, John Cratin Stokes. Their father, Richard Henry Stokes Sr., died and bequeathed to his two sons a large estate that included slaves. The petitioners assert that the estate's executors "kept the estate together and greatly wasted and mismanaged the same by employing worthless overseers and giving no personal attention to the farm, contracting large & unnecessary debts." Richard further avers that in 1820 Archibald Stokes became guardian of the petitioners and "pretended that the estate was so involved in debts" that property would have to be sold. Having "attained to the age of twenty one," Richard recounts that he has not received "a reasonable allowance for the profits" of said estate. He therefore prays that Stokes "be decreed to pay to your orator a reasonable sum for what the legacies left himself and brother would have yealded if properly managed."
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Repository: Elbert County Courthouse, Elberton, Georgia
