Petition #20983107

• St. Mary's County, Maryland. June 24, 1831. - June 24, 1831.
• Court: Equity
• Salutation: To the honorable the Judges of Saint Mary's County Court as a Court of Equity

Abstract

In June 1831, Johns and Mahlon Hopkins obtained a writ of fieri facias against James and Stephen Keech. The sheriff of Saint Mary's County sent a deputy to seize their property. William Keech complains that the deputy seized a slave named Mary, whom William Keech claims as his "bona fide property." Keech asks for an injunction to stop the proceedings until his claim is settled. He also petitions the court to return the slave to him and to subpoena the Hopkinses to answer his charges.

Result: Partially granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #20983106, #20985970; Order, 24 June 1831; Bond, William Keech, Joseph F. Shaw, and W. B. Locke, 23 June 1831; Answer, Johns and Mahlon Hopkins, 11 November 1831
• Pages of related documents: 5

5 people are documented within petition 20983107

• 1 Enslaved
• 2 Defendants
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

• Schweninger Collection
• Page: 5
• Microfilm: M 11026

Subjects

• Title dispute (enslaved)