Petition #20785137
- Woodford County, Kentucky. January 4, 1851. - March 11, 1853.
- Court: Circuit
- Salutation: To the honorable Judge of the Woodford Circuit Court in chancery sitting
Abstract
Thomas Bullock owned Jane Williams and other slaves to whom he granted manumission. All slaves who were twenty-one and unmarried had the opportunity of "going to Liberia or some other place of freedom out of the bounds of these United States." Williams charges that Eleanor Bullock, Thomas's widow, refuses to allow her and her three children to emigrate, keeps her in servitude, and is keeping the proceeds from her hire. Williams is suing Bullock for freedom, back wages, and seeks a restraining order to prevent her removal from the state.
Result: Partially granted.
- Number of petition pages: 4
- Related documents: PARs #20783010, #20783013, #20785022, #20785124, #20785126, #20785128, #20785130, #20785132, #20785134, #20785136, #20785139, #20785201; Bill of Revivor, 17 December 1851; Answer, Eleanor Bullock, 20 January 1851; Answer, William Bullock, 28 January 1852; Commissioner's Reports, 1 September 1853 and 8 September 1853; Depositions [pages missing], Samuel Nuckols and William Bullock, 17 February 1851
- Pages of related documents: 39
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Citation information
Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
- Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files
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