Petition #20980813

Abstract

Elizabeth Courtney complains that James Bryden and Violet Bhenn plan to move Polly, a slave sold by Courtney's husband as a term slave to Joseph Carr, who in turn sold her to the defendants. Courtney acknowledges the court's injunction ordering Bryden and Bhenn to appear in court, but complains that "the said James Bryden has disclosed it to be his intention to take the said woman and her three children out of the State into the State of New York ... In two or three days." Courtney asks for a writ of ne exeat to forbid Bryden to leave the state until "he shall have given security, not to take the said slave belonging to Your Petr out of it."

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

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