<petition><petition_analysis_number>20185629</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20185629</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Montgomery</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>6</file_day><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1856</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>67</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>72</total_people_count><repository>Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama</repository><abstract>Martha E. Conyers, a widow and the administratrix of "all and Singular the Goods and Chattels rights and Credits that were of James R Conyers," seeks to distribute seventy-seven slaves among her three children and herself.  She asks that a commission of "disinterested persons in pursuance of statute Law" be appointed to make the division.  The slaves are subsequently divided into four "lots" worth $10,462.50.</abstract><subjects><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject><subject>Inventory (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>