Thomas Binford seeks to sell the land of the defendants, his minor wards, who are between ages nine and fifteen. As their guardian, Binford argues, it would be to their great advantage to sell the land (a two-hundred-acre tract) and "invest the money in personal Estate" since all of the wards live out of state. In addition, one of them, Benjamin Ingram Binford, age nine, owns a "certain negro Man named Peter about 37 Years of age." Peter has a wife and children living in Lauderdale County. Binford does not have authority to purchase Peter's family, and therefore recommends that Peter be sold to someone in the vicinity, and that the money be invested in "a younger and more serviceable Negro."
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Repository: Lauderdale County Courthouse, Florence, Alabama
