{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21484707","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21484707","state":"Tennessee","county":"Smith","location_type":"County","file_day":0,"file_month":8,"file_year":1847,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_date_circa":"y","end_day":0,"end_month":8,"end_year":1847,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"granted","enslaved_count":4,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":8,"repository":"Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee","abstract":"William L. Martin, trustee of Joseph A. Martin, reports that \"there was allotted to petitioner in trust for said Joseph A. Martin a negro named Tom,\" which represented one-seventh of the property owned by the late William Martin, their father.  William explains that \"after the division of said negroes the said Joseph A. Martin ... made a contract with Wilson Y. Martin\" to exchange Tom for \"a negro woman Marinda and her two children Jane & Alfred.\"  As trustee, William consented to the trade and \"is of opinion that the exchange was fairly made, that the woman & children were worth the amt given for them.\"  He asks \"that your honor confirm said contract\" and \"that titles to said slaves be divested and Invested accordingly.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Swapping (enslaved)"}]}]}