<petition><petition_analysis_number>20686205</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20686205</petition_url><state>Georgia</state><county>Muscogee</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>24</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1862</file_year><filing_court>Ordinary</filing_court><end_day>12</end_day><end_month>1</end_month><end_year>1863</end_year><ending_court>Ordinary</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>1</total_people_count><repository>Muscogee County Courthouse, Columbia, Georgia</repository><abstract>Samuel Boykin, guardian for Sulah Boykin, seeks the court's permission to use "several thousand dollars" from Sulah's estate to purchase "any favorable &amp; promising lot of negroes" for the benefit of Sulah.</abstract><subjects><subject>Management (enslaved)</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject></subjects></petition>