Samuel, once the slave of the late Samuel Wilkinson, was left to Wilkinson's son John. Samuel explains that he was hired out by John for 12 years when, "in consideration of yr orators past services & hire," John agreed to let Samuel hire himself out and raise $450 to buy his freedom. He received his freedom in January 1836, and he went to Indiana to work. While he was there, John died intestate. John's administrator, James Roberts, is now claiming Samuel as part of John's estate. Samuel asks that Roberts be restrained from holding him in service and that he be declared a free man.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
