Petition #20981826

• Anne Arundel County, Maryland. filing started circa 1818.
• Court: Orphans
• Salutation: To the worshipful the Justices of the orphans Court of Anne Arundel County

Abstract

Benjamin Hancock, administrator of the estate of the late Nicholas Phillips, asks the court's permission to sell Jacob, a term slave in the estate. Hancock believes "it would be more advantagious to the Estate of the said deceased to dispose of the said Negro for the residue of the time for which he the said Negro Jacob is to serve."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PAR #20981710
• Pages of related documents: 0

3 people are documented within petition 20981826

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

• Register of Wills, 1809-1820 (Petitions and Orders)
• Page: 501-502
• Microfilm: CR 63,126

Subjects

• Term slavery