Elizabeth Rumph McPike seeks to recover several slaves, who were conveyed in trust to her and her children by her late husband, Jacob Rumph. She reminds the court that in 1811 she filed suit against her son and a certain Jonathan Hughes in order to regain possession of certain trust estate slaves, who had been carried off by her then-husband, John McPike, before he abandoned her. She now argues that following John's departure "certain of her neighbours in conjunction with the said Jonathan Hughes commenced a general system of plunder against her and ultimately dispossessed her of every vestige of her property. Her negro slaves were all forcibly taken from her." Citing that she received a favorable judgment in 1816 ordering the return of said slaves, Elizabeth avows that the said Hughes conspired with a certain John Robinson to remove and hide eight of the slaves, thus preventing their recovery. The petitioner prays "for full relief touching all the matters hereinbefore set forth with a ... delivery of her property from every one of the parties in whose possession the same now is or has been," as well as an account of "the labor or profits of her said negroes."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
