Sarah Conner, a free woman of color, intervenes in a suit filed by the Bank of Kentucky against Theophilus Freeman. She seeks to recover her two female slaves, twenty-six-year-old Mary Ann and nineteen-year-old Ellen, who have been seized by the sheriff on a writ of fieri facias to satisfy the Bank’s claim against Freeman. Sarah contends that she is the "true and lawful owner" of the two slaves, having recently acquired them from Mrs. Caroline M. Williams, a widow. She paid $600 for Mary Ann and got Ellen, plus $300, by exchanging her for a male mulatto slave named Lewis. She charges that the seizure is therefore illegal, unjust, and oppressive. She prays that John L. Lewis, the sheriff, as well as the Bank of Kentucky and Theophilus Freeman, be cited to appear and answer her suit. She asks to be allowed to give bond for the return of her two slaves.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
