Sally Toogood represents that Peter Gardner freed her, her sister Rachael Ann, and her mother Martha in 1821. She states that her father, Henry Toogood, had earlier attempted to purchase his family, "but Peter Gardner believing that this bill of sale was not valid afterward executes a deed of manumission to negroes Martha Rachael Ann and Sally Toogood." Now Sally is being advertised for sale as a slave in order to pay her father's debts. Sally asks the court for an injunction to prevent the proposed sale. Walter Stewart, a defendant and creditor of Henry Toogood, states in his answer that "he would prefer loosing his debt to the sale of the said sally as the property of the said Henry Toogood for the payment of said debt" and he "does now relinquish all claim that he had or may have to the said Sally as the property of Henry Toogood."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
