John and Sarah Paulling Lewis ask for an order setting aside an "Indenture of Deed" made by Sarah to Benjamin and Musco Boulware; they wish to recover personal property, including slaves, mistakenly conveyed to the Boulwares in the indenture. The petitioners purport that Sarah "did not read or have read for her or in her hearing the said deed" and that "it was not her intention or desire to dispose of her said property to the said Benjamin and Musco Boulware ... as Trustees in such a manner as to deprive her of the possession & management of the slaves herein above named ... but that she desired to execute & thought she was executing an instrument of writing, which would give her the separate & entire right to own in her own name free of her intended husband ... the property specified." Stating that "it is now & has always been their desire to have the possession of the slaves," the Lewises pray that the Boulwares be decreed to return said property, which they have refused to do.
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Repository: Alachua County Courthouse, Gainesville, Florida
