Cornelius Dollahite and Margarett Sanders Johnson charge Elizabeth Sanders Blackwell and her son Sanders with appropriating much of the estate of the late Jane Sanders Greenwood. The petitioners represent that Edward Sanders, the father of Margarett and Elizabeth, left a life estate in sundry slaves and other property to his widow Jane and "at her death to his & her three Daughters." They report that Jane and her daughters moved to North Carolina with the slaves, where they all married and lived for a number of years. They state that Jane and Elizabeth later moved to Tennessee with 3 slaves, leaving 7 slaves in the hands of a court-appointed receiver "to be hired out for the use and benefit of" said Jane; they "suppose" that "the hire of sd. Negroes who were very valuable amounted ... to upwards of $3,000." Noting that Jane died in 1830, the petitioners argue that the defendants "exercised an astonishing influence over her, and so managed ... to get into their hands and convert to their own use the whole of the money arising from the hire of the negroes both in North Carolina and in this state." The petitioners ask the court's aid in compelling an account from the defendants. [The petition is missing pages.]
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