The surviving family of Almond Chaves, a free person of color, ask the court to compel Chaves's administrator, Basil B. Satterfield, to render an administrative account of the estate. They inform the court that Chaves died intestate in 1848 in Hickman County without a wife or children. They further report that Chaves possessed a sixteen-year-old slave named Jonathan and "perishable property," including livestock and "the crop for 1848," worth $1500. The petitioners charge that Satterfield has sold Chaves's perishable property, hired out Jonathan "from year to year," and collected "all the debts due his intestate." Satterfield has returned but one account of sales, no account of hire, and made no settlement with the clerk of court. The petitioners, residents of North Carolina, insist that they are "the only persons interested in the distribution of the estate." They therefore demand that Satterfield account with them for the estate and "deliver up said slave Jonathan."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Maury County Historical Society Loose Records Project, Columbia, Tennessee
