{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11586301","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11586301","state":"Texas","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_day":27,"file_month":11,"file_year":1863,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"referred to Judiciary Committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas","abstract":"John Dean and his brother George were partners in a plantation enterprise until George's death in 1859; John became executor of his brother's estate.  George's widow remarried the next year, but her new husband was so poor a manager of the \"Planting Co-partnership\" that John Dean dissolved the partnership and divided the slaves.  Seventy-five-year-old Dean believes, however, that he can \"only get a legal title to the Testators moiety or half part\" of the property by a special act of the legislature.  He asks for an act \"to settle said Estate under the direction of the County court.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Veterans"}]}]}