{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21085322","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21085322","state":"Mississippi","county":"Hinds","location_type":"County","file_day":7,"file_month":9,"file_year":1853,"filing_court":"Probate","enslaved_count":7,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Hinds County Courthouse, Raymond, Mississippi","abstract":"Allen W. Walker, guardian of minor John R. Brown, reports the accidental death of a slave owned by his ward while hired to Moulton Parkman and seeks permission to accept a partial payment of the annual hire fee.  Walker states that the slave Mariah was hired to Parkman for $129 for the year 1853.  On 1 February 1853, Mariah was burned \"in consequence of her bed clothes becoming inflamed whilst She was asleep\"; Mariah died at the end of February.  Walker discloses that Parkman refuses to pay the full amount of her hire but is willing to pay $10.75, \"the pro rata hire ... for one month.\"  Walker asks the court to accept his report of Mariah's death and to authorize him to accept the money offered by Parkman.","subjects":[{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Death of enslaved (other)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (minors)"}]}]}