In 1814, James Armstrong "was keeper of the Ferry called Armstrong Ferry on the Kentucky River during which time a Yankee waggon loaded with wooden clocks crossed at the Ferry & owing to the negligence and improper management of the Driver the clocks got wet in the River." Armstrong claims that his neighbor, James Anderson, "an artful designing man," convinced him to give Anderson a bill of sale for three slaves, Patsy and her two children Lucy and Strother, to prevent them from being seized to pay the "Yankee waggoner" compensation and to keep them in the neighborhood, since one of Anderson's slaves was Patsy's husband. Although the driver did not recover "one cent," Anderson has returned neither the bill of sale nor the slaves, whom he lured away from Armstrong's possession in 1818 with promises of obtaining their freedom. Armstrong claims that Patsy's husband, "could both read & write [and] he was nearly a match for his master in fraud." Armstrong asks the court to restrain Anderson from moving the slaves out of the state until this case is heard and to decree Armstrong's ownership of the negroes.
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
