"Your petitioners would show your Honor that Isaac Baker the father of petitioner of Mary Howard by his will gave to petitioner Mary & a life remainder to her two children petitioners Daniel & Mary Ann a negroe girl named Magaret about Fourteen or Fifteen years old. petitioner B R would show your Honor that being about to remove from the State and having a valuable family servant who had a negroe the property of petitioner Douglass for a wife and not being willing to part with him or seperate him from his wife he made an exchange with the said Douglass giving him the girl Magaret for Jane now about 30 years old and her two children to wit Sally & Alice giving to the said Douglass $500 the difference in the value and he is now willing that the title of the said Jane Sally & Alice shall be setled upon petitioner Mary for life & remainder over to Daniel & Mary Ann in lieu of the girl Margaret. All the petitioners join in the prayer that said sale be confirmed and that the title of Magaret be vested in petitioner T C Douglass and the Title of Jane be setled upon petitioner Mary for life remainder over to petitioners Mary Ann & Daniel And as in duty bound they will ever pray &c" [Transcription of petition]
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