Petition #11680201

Abstract

Free black Sally Brown asks that she be allowed to inherit her deceased brother's estate. Both she and her brother, Billy Brown, had been emancipated by Dr. Robert Brown, a Richmond physician, but when her brother died the great portion of the estate given him by his master was "vested by right of escheat in the commonwealth."

Result: Reasonable, reported.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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