Petition #20785218

• Floyd County, Kentucky. filing started April 7, 1852.
• Court: Circuit

Abstract

James T. Ford states that seventeen-year-old William "was bound to him by the Floyd County Court as a free boy" until William reached the age of twenty-one. Ford charges that William C. McReynolds and Drewry B. Brown "illegely arested the Said boy out of his posesion and detanes him as a slave." Ford seeks monetary damages for William.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #20785219, #20785220, #20785221, #20785222, #20785223; Depositions, Jonathan and Mary Mayo, 10 May 1860; Notice, 31 March 1860
• Pages of related documents: 9

5 people are documented within petition 20785218

• 1 Free person of color
• 2 Defendants
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

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

• Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)
• Churches
• Kidnapping (FPOC)
• Abolition