William Botkin Jr. is the guardian of Andrew J. and Paulina Jordan, heirs of John Jordan, deceased. In his will, John Jordan specified that a slave named Leah should be hired out until his youngest daughter Martha, alias Patsy, arrived at age eight, and "in the event that the said negro woman should not breed or increase then that she should be sold at the end of eight years." The eight years have passed, Leah has not bred or had increase, but Patsy's guardian Samuel Chambers refuses to permit Leah to be sold, "pretending that she is rightfully the property of his ward." Botkin asks the court to decree that Leah be sold and that Chambers account for her hire from the time Patsy reached eight.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Harrison County Courthouse, Cynthiana, Kentucky
