<petition><petition_analysis_number>21585820</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21585820</petition_url><state>Texas</state><county>Brazoria</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>26</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1858</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><end_day>0</end_day><end_month>0</end_month><end_year>0</end_year><result></result><enslaved_count>4</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>6</total_people_count><repository>Brazoria County Courthouse, Angleton, Texas</repository><abstract>A. T. Morris, guardian of Ann McNeel [McNeil] Westall, asks the court to approve his hiring out of four slaves in Westall's estate.  Morris assures the court that "said hiring was fairly publicly &amp; openly made."</abstract><subjects><subject>Hiring value (enslaved)</subject><subject>Enslaver (minors)</subject></subjects></petition>