{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20184601","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20184601","state":"Alabama","county":"Mobile","location_type":"County","file_day":27,"file_month":3,"file_year":1846,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_date_circa":"y","end_year":1846,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama","abstract":"In 1843, Maria A. Borden's brother, Edwin Browningg, died intestate, leaving her as an heir.  In 1845, Maria's husband Arnold Borden, a resident of North Carolina, made arrangements with the administrator of his brother-in-law's estate to use Maria's share to pay off a debt to a mercantile firm.  Within months, however, her husband died.  The widow explains that her husband, although he owned a large estate in land and slaves in Greene County, Alabama, died \"greatly embarrassed.\"  She is \"infirmed & believes that the said sum of money should have been paid to her.\"  She sues the administrator of her husband's estate.","subjects":[{"subject":"Westward migration"}]}]}