Savane Brousard, guardian of minor Phillippie Ashworth, a free mulatto from a prominent family, asks the court to appoint a "suitable and proper" person to replace the late Aaron Ashworth as Phillippie's trustee. Young Phillippie and his siblings were given two slaves, Lewis and Jack, in 1859 by their parents, Abner and Rozella Ashworth. The profits from the slaves' annual hire were to be divided among the children and held in trust. Since then, Phillippie's two sisters have married. Brousard alleges that their husbands have attempted to sell the slaves without regard to Phillippie's property rights. Brousard now possesses the slave Lewis and asks the court to allow him "to take charge of said negro ... and to recover the other negro and hold him subject to said trust" as well.
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Repository: Jefferson County Courthouse, Beaumont, Texas
