Petition #20783701

• Jefferson County, Kentucky. filing started March 13, 1837.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the Hon Geo M Bibb Chancellor sitting in the Louisville chancery court

Abstract

Ambrose Mann sues a steamboat company for $1,500, the amount he lost when his mulatto slave Lemuel escaped to Canada. Mann had hired Lemuel out to work aboard the steamboat Paul Jones. Mann claims that Lemuel had been a "faithful & excellent & capable servant until he was seduced by the hope of freedom."

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: Deposition, Stephen Haskill, 24 September 1839; Bond, Subpoena and Order, 17 May 1837
• Pages of related documents: 5

6 people are documented within petition 20783701

• 1 Enslaved
• 4 Defendants
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

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

• Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files

Subjects

• Freedom papers
• Canada, migration to
• Ships
• Non-plantation/Non-household work (enslaved)
• Hiring value (enslaved)
• Skills (enslaved)
• Freedom seekers
• Abolition
• Assessed Value (enslaved)