Emily Caton, administratrix of Eleanor Browning's estate, claims "that there is great danger" that Frisby, an estate slave, "will runaway to the enemy" if he is not sold "to a master more capable of securing him than your petitioner." Since "neither your petitioner nor her ward ... are at all qualified to have the direction and Government of such a head strong ungovernable boy," Caton asks that she be allowed to sell the slave.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
