Martha Toogood, next friend and mother of Sally, Mary, Rachael Ann, and Susan Rebecca, petitions for an injunction to prevent her children from being subject to sale "as the property of the said Henry Toogood as slaves for life." The petitioner asserts that Peter Gardner, their former owner, freed her and her daughters but the children have now been advertised to be sold in order to pay the debts of their father, Henry Toogood. The decree states "It is agreed between the Counsel for the different parties in this Case, that the negroes now taken in execution, shall be sold by Henry C. Gaither untill the Children arrive to the age of twenty five years for the purpose of pay the within debts."
Result: Injunction granted; injunction partially withdrawn; two petitioners sold.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
