<petition><petition_analysis_number>20985325</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20985325</petition_url><state>Maryland</state><county>Anne Arundel</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_date_circa>y</file_date_circa><file_year>1853</file_year><filing_court>Orphans</filing_court><end_day>8</end_day><end_month>6</end_month><end_year>1854</end_year><ending_court>Orphans</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>9</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>17</total_people_count><repository>Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland</repository><abstract>William Brewer Jr., administrator of the estate of the late William Rawlings, reports that he erroneously included a slave named James Pointer in the inventory of Rawlings's estate.  He explains that Pointer's former owner, William Sayer, has now produced a bill of sale in which Rawlings agreed to free Pointer in 1852.  Brewer asks the court to execute a deed of manumission for Pointer and to credit his inventory with the appraised value of the slave.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject><subject>Swapping (enslaved)</subject><subject>Term slavery</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject></subjects></petition>