{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20185811","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20185811","state":"Alabama","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_day":23,"file_month":12,"file_year":1858,"filing_court":"Probate","end_month":12,"end_year":1858,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":17,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":27,"repository":"Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama","abstract":"William V. Thompson, one of the administrators of the estate of Jane A. Thompson, who died intestate, asks to sell the one-fourth interest Jane Thompson possessed in six slaves: Ned, age about sixty-five, Tabitha age sixty-five, Susana age sixty, Sallie age fourteen, Lewis age forty-five, and Nancy age forty.  He asks to divide the proceeds among minor heirs and other legatees.","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved family)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (minors)"},{"subject":"Family kept together (Black)"}]}]}