William Sampson states that Nancy Kilgore "proposed to trade a negro girl named Nancy the property of Wm B Kilgore decd ... for a negro girl of plaintiffs named Rebecca." He reports that she told him "that said Nancy some five or six years previous had had a rising on her neck which had broke & left a scar, & that since that period there was an occasional swelling of the glands of the throat when she took cold, and that these were the only manifestations of disease that she ever had, that she would not warrant her sound, as those symptoms were indications of scrofula." Sampson charges that Kilgore withheld from him that "Nancy was a notorious thief" and "intended to poison" her family. The petitioner "prays for a recission of the said contract and a decree directing the defendant to surrender the said woman Rebecca and that his bill of sale for her ... may be cancelled."
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
