<petition><petition_analysis_number>20185816</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20185816</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Dallas</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>19</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1858</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><enslaved_count>4</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>6</total_people_count><repository>Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama</repository><abstract>William B. Shields, administrator of the estate of Martin Hesler, deceased, requests permission to sell four slaves--a man named Coleman, a woman named Julia, and two children ages eight or nine and three--to pay debts.</abstract><subjects><subject>Mortgage value (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>