Mary Ann Phillips, by her next friend and father, Leonard Phillips, avers that her "good chaste Virtuous & modest" reputation has been slandered and destroyed by Tillman Haynes. The petitioner asserts that Haynes told a group of people that "a certain white man had caught her (meaning the said Mary Ann) and a negro boy (meaning the said Male slave) together (meaning that a certain white man had caught the said Mary Ann in the act of carnal copulation with & Knowledge of the said negro male Slave)." Phillips states that she is innocent of the accusations, yet, because of the rumors, her neighbors and others "wholly refused and still refuse daily more & more to have any commerce acquaintance or social intercourse with her or to have anything to do with her." Phillips seeks $10,000 for the damage done to her.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Coweta County Courthouse, Newnan, Georgia
