Petition #21483802

Abstract

William Slaughter, a man "far advanced in years," asks the court to annul an agreement made between him and Richard Stuart, a former slave with an exemplary reputation for "honesty, sobriety, and industry." Slaughter represents that he and his wife were no longer able to manage their farm in such a manner as to provide them "a comfortable subsistence" thereon, so he entered into a contract with Stuart in 1831. He declares that said agreement gave land and tools to Stuart on the condition that Stuart would supply the couple with necessaries and "other things that is common for folks of their age." Slaughter charges that Stuart "soon became indiferent to the wishes or comfort of your Orator; and gradually insolent, neglectful, and almost utterly regardless of all the obligations imposed on him by said agreement." He further attests "that the character & conduct of said Stuart were undergoing a total change -- that he put off the bearing of a slave and put on that of a master." The petitioner therefore prays that Stuart be compelled "to supply your Orator with such support as was contemplated by said agreement" or that a "cancelment of said Deed of Conveyance & agreement may be decreed."

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee

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