<petition><petition_analysis_number>21085026</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21085026</petition_url><state>Mississippi</state><county>Yazoo</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>31</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1850</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>1</total_people_count><repository>Yazoo County Courthouse, Yazoo City, Mississippi</repository><abstract>Marshall R. Greer, administrator of the Eveline R. Miller estate, represents that Miller left seven slaves and two distributees; the slaves are "a man, his wife and four children and another man" and the distributees "are infants under the age of fourteen."  The petitioner seeks permission to sell the slaves and the cotton crop so he can distribute the proceeds equally among the heirs.</abstract><subjects><subject>Crops (Cotton)</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject></subjects></petition>