Sixty-four-year-old Mary Humphreys, wife of sixty-five-year-old Jesse Humphreys, reports that "by an act of the last session of the Assembly she was appointed Guardian of her said husband," who was deemed incapable of managing his estate. Fearful that his husband’s relatives will attempt to gain possession of his property, the petitioner prays that she "may be shielded against the efforts of his Brothers to wrest it out of her hands, and that she may be permitted to contract bargains relative to the management of it as if she was a feme sole." Humphreys notes that “her husband is possessed of four very aged Negroes, which ... should be kept on their farm and not sold or be subjected to be sold to their great injury -- as your petitioner’s husband has had their labours in early life.”
Result: Referred to committee of propositions and grievances: "reasonable".
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
