John Oldham claims that he hired out his slave Morton Blackburn to the firm of Wints & Rheinhard. The slave was "taken without the consent of Compt. or said Wirts & Reinhard on board the steam boat Versailes" and carried to Cincinnati. From there he escaped to Canada. Oldham asks the court to order the master and owners of the Versailes to compensate him for the value of the slave plus expenses in trying to recover him and that the steamboat be restrained from leaving the jurisdiction of the court until the case is settled.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
