<petition><petition_analysis_number>20882908</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20882908</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Iberville</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>3</file_day><file_month>4</file_month><file_year>1829</file_year><filing_court>District</filing_court><end_day>20</end_day><end_month>10</end_month><end_year>1831</end_year><ending_court>District</ending_court><result>granted; appealed; remanded; dismissed</result><enslaved_count>250</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>254</total_people_count><repository>Iberville Parish Courthouse, Plaquemine, Louisiana</repository><abstract>Gilbert Russell and Henry Barstow, merchants operating under the firm G. E. Russell &amp; Barstow, seek to collect a debt.  They explain that Durham Tudor Hall issued to them two promissory notes worth $3,062 each.  The notes are now past due yet Hall refuses to honor them.  Russell and Barstow pray that Hall be ordered to pay the notes with interest.  A related document reveals that Hall owned two-hundred-and-fifty slaves.</abstract><subjects><subject>Crops (Cotton)</subject><subject>Crops (sugar)</subject><subject>Inventory (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>