<petition><petition_analysis_number>21085230</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21085230</petition_url><state>Mississippi</state><county>Jefferson</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>7</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1852</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><end_date_circa>y</end_date_circa><end_month>1</end_month><end_year>1853</end_year><ending_court>Probate</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>7</total_people_count><repository>Jefferson County Courthouse, Fayette, Mississippi</repository><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 &amp; tenements will be promoted by a sale," the petitioner prays that such a sale be ordered.</abstract><subjects><subject>Crops (timber)</subject></subjects></petition>