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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Michael House vs. George French
ITEMS: petition 20 June 1811; accounty 26 March 1811; petition 8 May 1812
COMMENTS: Dispute over profits from slaves and land in an estate
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of Samule Lynch, Jr.
ITEMS: petition 10 November 1818
COMMENTS:
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Gher vs. Dorsey
ITEMS: petition of George Gher [1829]; answer 1 September 1829
COMMENTS: Estate administrator seeks to have slave child, "begot prior to the execution of the Bill of Sale [of the mother] & not included therein", to be part of the estate
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of Henry A. Jamison
ITEMS: bill [1836]; petition of Elizabeth A. Byrne 7 December 1835
COMMENTS: Slaveowner was "exceedingly soliticous for the welfare of her domestics", and through a male administrator of her husband's estate she asked that slaves be sold at a private sale for the best prices rather than at a public sale for the appraised prices (which were 10 percent above market value)
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) John Bowles vs. Isabell Johnson
ITEMS: bill 12 November 1845; answer 15 November 1845
COMMENTS: Two Negro girls named Eliza and Sarah were improperly included in an inventory as belonging to the estate of John Johnson according to plaintiff
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of Henrietta Gaither
ITEMS: bill 26 May 1846
COMMENTS: Slaveowner notes that "some of said negro slaves are married, and a public sale of them would subject them to the hazard of being separated from their families and also being sold out of the state, or to cruel masters--all of which they are desirous
of preventing"
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of Virginia Jenkins
ITEMS: bill 22 September 1846
COMMENTS: Free black woman (though her color is not indicated) asks tobe released from jail because she had been arrested for leaving and returning to the state "contrary to law"
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of James Biays
ITEMS: bill 11 May 1847; court order [1848]
COMMENTS: Sale and distribution of estate slaves
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Juliet McKinely vs. N. McKinley
ITEMS: bill 12 October 1847; bill 1848; order of the court 2 December 1847; docket of appeal 21 March 1848
COMMENTS: Case involving slaves belonging to an estate
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Daniel Huyett vs. Edward Gaither 16 November 1847
ITEMS: bill 16 November 1847
COMMENTS: Creditors to an estate charge that estate administrator sold some slaves to Matilda Gaither "only to gratify the requirements of the Orphans Court in making his return of the sales at the property time"; in fact the administrator was the purchaser of the slaves
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of George Scheley and James A. Dall
ITEMS: bill 14 December 1847
COMMENTS: Executors of estate of large number of blacks ask permission to keep the property until the spring of 1848, and "perhaps for a longer period", so that they can be most beneficial to the parties interested in the estate
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of Edward Gaither
ITEMS: 1 February 1848; exhibit A [1848]; appeal 17 February 1848
COMMENTS: Estate administrator accused to hiring slaves out for his profit
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of Lavinia Grove
ITEMS: bill 7 March 1848
COMMENTS: Slaveowner admits mistake of including in an inventory slaves for life named Thomas, Francis, Mary and Isabella, but the four slaves were entitled to their freedom when they reached age thirty five; asks court to issue a new warrant of appraisal
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Eve Abigail Davis vs. Samuel A. Stonebraker
ITEMS: bill 17 October 1848
COMMENTS: Davis claims title to slave Tilly
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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WASHINGTON COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Petitions and Orders) Petition of William Cushua
ITEMS: petition 1849
COMMENTS: Estate executor asks the court to accept the plea for freedom of Amy Thompson, a "Mulatto Servant Woman" belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Prather
SOURCE: MSA T450-1
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