(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) Manuscript document signed, petition to a probate judge, claiming insolvency, "the estate was a common ground open to the ravages of the two contending armies." Two long folio pages with 19th century brass clasps holding the pages together; creases where folded. Hinds County, MISS, 1870
An interesting example of the effects of war and Reconstruction on the people of the South. Here Virginia Boughy, administrator of the estate of John Raney since 1864 appeals to a probate judge saying that the estate is now virtually worthless. She explains "having to clothe, feed and sustain the Negroes properly from 1864 to 1866, the once assessed value of $12,000," was now, due to the war and Emancipation, worth absolutely nothing. Boughy came to be appointed the administrator of the estate and its crops and animals by the Confederate government. However, during the late part of the war, what wasn't consumed by the army of the Confederacy or the army of the Union went to feed herself and the slaves who stayed with her. The case was probably brought by heirs or their representatives. The latter were described as having been "minors" during the war who were under separate guardianship.
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