Petition #21085209

Abstract

Joseph B. Greaves, administrator of Mary A. Thomas's estate, states that Thomas owned nineteen slaves at her death, but no real estate, and "that there is none now belonging to the distributees of said Estate upon which said negro slaves could be worked." Noting that said slaves must either be sold or hired out, Greaves believes that "the best disposition that could be made of them at present would be to hire them out." The petitioner therefore prays that he "be authorized and directed to hire for the present year (1852), at public auction to the highest bidder" the said slaves held by the estate.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Hinds County Courthouse, Raymond, Mississippi

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