<petition><petition_analysis_number>11680201</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11680201</petition_url><state>Virginia</state><county>Richmond</county><location_type>City</location_type><file_day>14</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1802</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>Reasonable, reported</result><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>2</fpoc_count><total_people_count>5</total_people_count><repository>Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia</repository><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."</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Property owners (Black)</subject><subject>Education and literacy (FPOC)</subject><subject>Bequest (enslaved)</subject><subject>Enslaver (FPOC)</subject></subjects></petition>