20884930https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20884930LouisianaEast Baton RougeParish8121849District711850Districtgranted8011East Baton Rouge Parish, Clerk of Court Archives, Baton Rouge, LouisianaIsaac R. Jackson represents that he hired out to James C. Dawson and his wife, Mary, eight slaves to work on their sugar plantation for the year 1849. The agreed-upon price of the slaves’ hires was $650, payable in January 1850. To secure payment, the Dawsons gave Jackson a privilege on their sugar crop. Jackson has so far been paid $400 in “molasses & other things.” He claims, however, that the Dawsons have now sold the “greater part” of their sugar crop and he fears that the remainder will also be “sold disposed of & removed” before he receives the balance of $250. Jackson therefore asks that a writ of sequestration be issued on what’s left of the sugar crop. He also asks that the Dawsons be ordered to pay the debt once due in January 1850.Hiring value (enslaved)Crops (sugar)