Petition #20785136

• 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 Daniel Tucker and other slaves to whom he granted manumission upon his death. 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." Tucker 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. Tucker 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, #20785132, #20785134, #20785137, #20785139, #20785201; Order, 3 January 1851; Answer, Eleanor Bullock, 20 January 1851; Deposition, Nathaniel Stone, 28 August 1851; Deposition, Joseph F. Frazer, 21 July 1851; Commissioner's Report, 8 September 1853
• Pages of related documents: 10

5 people are documented within petition 20785136

• 3 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

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

• Records of the Circuit Court, Case Files

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• Education and literacy (enslaved)
• Colonization to resettle
• Hiring value (enslaved)
• Term slavery