Isaac R. Jackson represents that he hired out to James C. Dawson and his wife, Mary, eight slaves to work on their sugar plantation for the year 1849. The agreed-upon price of the slaves’ hires was $650, payable in January 1850. To secure payment, the Dawsons gave Jackson a privilege on their sugar crop. Jackson has so far been paid $400 in “molasses & other things.” He claims, however, that the Dawsons have now sold the “greater part” of their sugar crop and he fears that the remainder will also be “sold disposed of & removed” before he receives the balance of $250. Jackson therefore asks that a writ of sequestration be issued on what’s left of the sugar crop. He also asks that the Dawsons be ordered to pay the debt once due in January 1850.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: East Baton Rouge Parish, Clerk of Court Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana