$$ Trail for the Surratt Boarding House

[Susan Higginbotham]

John Surratt Sr. had acquired the boardinghouse as part of a transaction involving several properties years before Mary moved into it.

According to a manuscript about the house kept at the Hall Research Center (I didn't copy the name of the author, alas), a creditor of John Surratt Sr. brought an equity proceeding in November 1865 asking that the H Street house be sold, which it was in June 1866. An Edward Belt had been administrating John Surratt Sr.'s estate, including the boardinghouse, since September 1865, when Anna renounced her rights of administratrix.