{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21085932","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21085932","state":"Mississippi","county":"Noxubee","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":9,"file_year":1859,"filing_court":"Probate","end_date_circa":"y","end_year":1859,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":18,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":31,"repository":"Noxubee County Courthouse, Macon, Mississippi","abstract":"Alexander Jeffries, executor of the estate of John W. Tate, informs the court that \"Said Testator left 26 negroes, mules, cattle, Hogs & farming utensils & growing crop\" and that \"said Testator was largely indebted & over ten thousand dollars of said Indebtedness is bearing 10 per cent Interest.\"  Asserting \"that it will be necessary for a sale of some of said negroes to pay debts,\" Jeffries \"verily believes that all had best be sold as they are not of a character & description that would be profitable to keep.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Crops (Cotton)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}