<petition><petition_analysis_number>20186010</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20186010</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Montgomery</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>1</file_day><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1860</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><end_day>1</end_day><end_month>11</end_month><end_year>1860</end_year><ending_court>Probate</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>12</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>18</total_people_count><repository>Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama</repository><abstract>William M. Brassell, administrator of the estate of Rolen Brassell, deceased, seeks to sell the estate's personal property, including slaves, and divide the proceeds among the heirs.  A related petition reveals that Rolen Brassell died in 1857 and the slaves were kept in the estate for more than two years prior to the administrator's prayer to sell them.</abstract><subjects><subject>Purchase/Sale (enslaved family)</subject><subject>Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)</subject><subject>Family kept together (Black)</subject></subjects></petition>