<petition><petition_analysis_number>20185332</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20185332</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Montgomery</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>31</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1853</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><enslaved_count>6</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>8</total_people_count><repository>Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama</repository><abstract>The administrator of the estate of Joseph P. Saffold, deceased, asks to sell "all of the personalty shown &amp; particularly set forth by him in his inventory" to pay debts of the estate.  He purposely excludes "the negroes &amp; private library of the deceased."</abstract><subjects><subject>Crops (Cotton)</subject><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>