{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21085230","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21085230","state":"Mississippi","county":"Jefferson","location_type":"County","file_day":7,"file_month":10,"file_year":1852,"filing_court":"Probate","end_date_circa":"y","end_month":1,"end_year":1853,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":7,"repository":"Jefferson County Courthouse, Fayette, Mississippi","abstract":"James M. Sillers, son of the late Daniel Sillers, petitions to sell two tracts of land belonging to his father's estate.  Sillers asserts that a division would give two heirs land with \"not a sufficiency of timber to fence and Enclose the same.\"  Declaring that \"the welfare of all persons interested in said lands & tenements will be promoted by a sale,\" the petitioner prays that such a sale be ordered.","subjects":[{"subject":"Crops (timber)"}]}]}