Petition #20785132
- Woodford County, Kentucky. January 4, 1851. - March 11, 1853.
- Court: Circuit
- Salutation: To the honorable Judge of the Woodford Circuit Court in chancery sitting
Abstract
Thomas Bullock owned George Bell and other slaves to whom he granted manumission. All slaves who were twenty-one and unmarried had the opportunity of "going to Liberia or some other place of freedom out of the bounds of these United States." Bell charges that Eleanor Bullock, Thomas's widow, refuses to allow him to emigrate, keeps him in servitude, and is keeping the proceeds from his hire. Bell is suing Bullock for freedom, back wages, and seeks a restraining order to prevent his removal from the state.
Result: Partially granted.
- Number of petition pages: 4
- Related documents: PARs #20783010, #20783013, #20785022, #20785124, #20785126, #20785128, #20785130, #20785134, #20785136, #20785137, #20785139, #20785201; Order, 3 January 1851; Bill of Revivor, 17 December 1852; Amended Bill, 6 March 1852; Answer, Eleanor Bullock, 20 January 1851; Answer, William Bullock, 28 January 1852; Depositions, Benjamin Wilson and David Harris, 27 February 1852; Commissioner's Report, 8 September 1853; Notation, ca. 1853
- Pages of related documents: 22
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
- Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files
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