Petition #20784121

• Barren County, Kentucky. filing started March 25, 1841.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Honorable Judge of the Barren Circuit Court in Chancery sitting

Abstract

Hetty claims to be the great-granddaughter of an American Indian woman from Virginia and therefore asserts that she is free. While this case is being determined, she asks to be taken into the custody of the sheriff and held or hired out, because she fears that she will be removed from the court's jurisdiction.

• Number of petition pages: 5
• Related documents: PARs #20784116, #20784117, #20784120, #20784122, #20784123, #20784124, #20784126, #20784127, #21681109; Amended Bill, ca. 1841
• Pages of related documents: 7

11 people are documented within petition 20784121

• 3 Enslaved
• 3 Defendants
• 2 Petitioners
• 5 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky

• Records of the Circuit Court, Equity Judgments
• Microfilm: Reel #218692

Subjects

• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• Westward migration
• Native Americans
• Interracial relationships
• Family separated (Black)