Petition #20979902
- Anne Arundel County, Maryland. March 28, 1799. - September 24, 1805.
- Court: Chancery
- Salutation: To the Honorable Alexander Contee Hansson Esquire Chancellor of Maryland
Abstract
Mary Scrivener, administratrix of John Scrivener's estate, distributed two slave women, Grace and Hagar, to her son William. After the distribution, Hagar had a daughter, Meriah. William then received a slave man, Tim, in the settlement of his brother Richard's estate. Francis Scrivener was named administrator of his mother Mary's estate in 1792 and allotted two unidentified slaves to his brother William but retained them in his possession. Now Joseph Camden, administrator of William's estate, charges that Francis, recently deceased, took "advantage of his brothers weakness and Imbecillity of mind, kept him in an out House, clothed fed and worked him as a negro, and with his negroes." Camden prays for a writ of subpoena against Francis's executors to answer questions about William's property. Camden requests a proper distribution of the estates and all other proper relief.
Result: Partially granted; dismissed; appealed; reversed and remanded; granted.
- Number of petition pages: 5
- Related documents: PARs #20978908, #20981825; Court Record, February Term 1803 and March Term 1799; Answer, John Whittington and John Scrivener, October Term 1799; Receipts, William Scrivener, 14 June 1763 and 1 January 1775; Appointment of Commissioners and Oaths, 4 March 1800; Depositions, Morgan Wood, Nehemiah Burket, Harrison Lane, George Reynolds and Walter Scrivener, 17 April 1800; Depositions, Thomas Lane, 19 April 1800 and 1 June 1800; Depositions, Harrison Lane, George Brown, Nehemiah Burket, Morgan Wood, George Reynolds, 1 June 1800; Interrogatories, June 1800; Depositions, Morgan Jones and Thomas Howard, 17 June 1800; Auditor's Report, 22 June 1801; Interrogatories, ca. 1801; Depositions, Catherine Busey, Morgan Wood, Henrietta Wood, Samuel Birkhead, Cephas Childs, William Scrivener, William Brown, Francis Crandall, Hezekiah Scrivener, William Childs and Lewis Scrivener, 14 April 1801; Depositions, Ann Mead, Rachel Brown, John Crandall, Jacob Patterson, Dorcas Brown, Margaret Crandall and Elizabeth Stallions, 11 May 1801; Depositions, Bazil Wood, Abel Crandall, Walter Scrivener, 18 May 1801; Depositions, David Weems, Ann Tannehill and Thomas Tannehill, 28 April 1801; Depositions, Nehemiah Birkhead, Daniel Frazier, John Griggis and Henry Childs, 18 May 1801; Notice, 4 March 1801; Deposition, Thomas Lane, 11 March 1801; Deposition, George Reynolds, 16 March 1801; Inventory, Estate of Mary Scrivener, 20 November 1772; Administrator's Report, 16 August 1777; Court Record, 1801-1803; Decree and Copy, 26 June 1805; Copy of Petition, Court Record, Inventory of Mary Scrivener's Estate, Administrator's Report, Depositions, Interrogatories, Court Record, Decree and Auditor's Report; Decree, 24 September 1805; Copy of Witness List, ca. 1800
- Pages of related documents: 128
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Citation information
Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
- Schweninger Collection
- Page: 7
- Microfilm: M 11016
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