Petition #20784124

• Barren County, Kentucky. March 25, 1841. - June 1841.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Honorable Judge of the Barren Circuit Court in Chancery sitting

Abstract

Clara claims to be the great-granddaughter of an American Indian woman from Virginia and therefore asserts that she is free. While this case is being determined, she asks to be taken into the custody of the sheriff and held or hired out, because she fears that she will be removed from the court's jurisdiction.

Result: Partially granted.

• Number of petition pages: 6
• Related documents: PARs #20784116, #20784117, #20784120, #20784121, #20784122, #20784123, #20784126, #20784127, #21681109; Order, June 1841; Amended Bill, ca. 1841
• Pages of related documents: 7

12 people are documented within petition 20784124

• 3 Enslaved
• 4 Defendants
• 2 Petitioners
• 5 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky

• Records of the Circuit Court, Equity Judgments

Subjects

• Westward migration
• Native Americans
• Interracial relationships
• Title dispute (enslaved)
• Family separated (Black)