Petition #20780202

• Jefferson County, Kentucky. May 28, 1802. - August 1803.
• Court: Quarter Sessions
• Salutation: To the Worshipful Court of Quarter Session for the County of Jefferson in Chancery sitting

Abstract

Margaret Eastridge Crum asks the court to issue an injunction to her husband, Mathias Crum, restraining him from removing her property from the state. This property, including a slave named Bob, was put in trust for her benefit as part of a marriage contract, but Margaret alleges that Mathias "has formed a Determination to quit your oratrix and to go to Parts out of this Commonwealth."

Result: Dismissed.

• Number of petition pages: 5
• Related documents: Order, 3 June 1802; Request to Sheriff, Margaret Crum, 10 July 1802; Bond, Abijah Swearingen and Thomas Gatewood, 9 March 1804; Receipt, Abijah Swearingen, 25 February 1804
• Pages of related documents: 4

5 people are documented within petition 20780202

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 2 Others

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Citation information

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

• Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files

Subjects

• Hiring value (enslaved)
• Abandonment
• Prenuptial agreement
• Property owners (women)