Petition #20783810

• Jefferson County, Kentucky. March 23, 1838. - April 3, 1840.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the Hon. George M Bibb Chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court

Abstract

Gabriel Farnsley charges George Love with having "knowingly and wilfully and corruptly perpetrated an outrageous fraud" upon him. Love traded a slave named James for Farnsley's slave Thomas, although James was included in a deed of gift to Love's children. Love allowed Thomas to be hired out to a steamboat captain, who has taken him on a voyage from "whence he may never return." Farnsley has returned James. He asks the court to rescind the contract of exchange and to compel the steamboat captain to return Thomas and to account for his hire.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: Amended Bill, 18 September 1838; Decree, 3 April 1840; Release, Gabriel Farnsley, 23 April 1840; Receipt, David Meriwether, 2 May 1840
• Pages of related documents: 5

9 people are documented within petition 20783810

• 2 Enslaved
• 3 Defendants
• 1 Petitioner
• 3 Others

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Citation information

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

• Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files

Subjects

• Ships
• Non-plantation/Non-household work (enslaved)
• Hiring value (enslaved)
• Skills (enslaved)
• Assessed Value (enslaved)
• Swapping (enslaved)
• Insolvency