Williamson County, Tennessee: the 1833 petition of William Nash, John Nash (by his guardian Thomas B. Garrett) and Charles W. Crouch and his wife Lucretia, stating that "sometime about the first of January 1833 Dempsey Nash departed this life intestate, leaving your petitioners William, John & Lucretia .. his only children & heirs," and listing ten enslaved people for distribution.

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To the Worshipful the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Williamson in the State of Tennessee. Your petitioners William Nash, John Nash who petitions by his guardian Thomas B. Garrett, & Charles W. Crouch and Lucretia Crouch his wife respectfully show that sometime about the first of January 1833 Dempsey Nash departed this life intestate, leaving your petitioners William, John & Lucretia (who had previously intermarried with your petitioner Charles W.) his only children & heirs distributees of his personal estate him surviving. That at the January Session [of said?] 1833 of said Court your petitioner Charles W. qualified as administrator of the personal estate of said Dempsey Nash deceased. That there belong to said personal estate the following negro slaves for distribution viz: Ben, Tom[?], Abram, Jim, Abe, Solomon, Hannah, Edy, Jenny & Patty. That the said William Nash hath been advanced by the said Dempsey Nash in his life time in one slave named Angy[?]ar of the value of five hundred dollars, and the said Charles W. & Lucretia his wife in one slave named Eliza[?] worth three hundred dollars & in two hundred dollars. Your petitioners further state that said Charles W. Crouch administrator as aforesaid consents that a division of said slaves now take place between your petitioners. Your petitioners therefore pray that this Worshipful Court appoint five [?] commissioners to divide said slaves equally among your petitioners, share & share alike, charging the share of William with the said sum of five hundred dollars & the share of said Charles W. & Lucretia his wife with the said sum of five hundred dollars, & that said commissioners report