Lucinda and Stephen Brown, executrix and executor of Ovid P. Brown's estate, represent that they are having difficulty paying off the debts of the estate. They state that the testator’s will allocated two slaves to be sold for that purpose but "that the negro girl fanny was disposed of by said Deceased in his lifetime and the negro boy Gilmer was offered for sale but no purchaser could be found and that said boy died about the 1st of January 1850." The petitioners therefore pray that they be authorized to sell the testator's "plantation on Black Creek" along with other tracts of land; they hope the proceeds from said sales "will be sufficient to relieve the Estate from debt & leave the negroes to be hired or otherwise made profitable to the Estate."
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Repository: Billups-Garth Archives, Lowndes County Public Library, Columbus, Mississippi
