A number of years prior to the institution of his suit, Zachariah Neal purchased a slave named Amey, also known as Amey Jones, from one Lewis Davis. Following the purchase, Amey had several children and Neal paid a "considerable sum of money into" the "Treasury for the Tax on the supposed Slaves." But Amey Jones instituted a suit and won her freedom and that of her children, and she left Neal, as he claims, "old & infirm in Indigent Circumstances." Neal now seeks reimbursement of the taxes paid on the family over those many years.
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia