Petition #20684702

• Coweta County, Georgia. January 1847. - circa May 1847.
• Court: Inferior
• Salutation: To the Honourable the Inferior Court of Said County -- Sitting for ordinary purposes at January Term 1847

Abstract

Isham Smith and Joshua Shropshire, executors of the last will and testament of Mark Smith, deceased, seek an equal division of the estate's twenty-two slaves among the five heirs.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: PAR #20684703; Deposition, Isham Smith, 11 January 1847; Order and Writ of Partition, 11 January 1847; Partitioners' Report, 13 January 1847; Certification of Partitioners, 13 January 1847; Notice and Acknowledgment, 13 January 1847; Order, May Term 1847
• Pages of related documents: 4

26 people are documented within petition 20684702

• 21 Enslaved
• 2 Petitioners
• 3 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Coweta County Courthouse, Newnan, Georgia

• Records of the Inferior Court, Minute Book B 1838-1850 (Attached to an 1844 petition - Box 1840-1844)
• Page: 309-315

Subjects

• Seniors (enslaved)
• Assessed Value (enslaved)
• Enslaver (minors)
• Inventory (enslaved)
• Family separated (Black)
• Family kept together (Black)