<petition><petition_analysis_number>20885289</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20885289</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Pointe Coupee</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>14</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1852</file_year><filing_court>District</filing_court><end_day>15</end_day><end_month>1</end_month><end_year>1853</end_year><ending_court>District</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>4</total_people_count><repository>Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana</repository><abstract>Arthur Adams represents that Henry, Sarah, and Worth, orphan "natural" children of the late Carmelite Key, are under the age of ten and have no relatives.  He therefore prays that a meeting of the children’s friends be convened to appoint a tutor and an “under tutor.”  Arthur Adams also prays for an inventory of the late Carmelite’s property, which includes a female slave named Elsey and her three-year-old infant daughter.</abstract><subjects><subject>Orphans</subject><subject>Purchase/Sale (enslaved family)</subject><subject>Auctions</subject><subject>Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)</subject><subject>Illegitimacy </subject><subject>Family kept together (Black)</subject></subjects></petition>