William Bullock, the administrator of Thomas Bullock's estate, states that his father owned Martha 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." The petitioner reveals that Martha elected to refuse the manumission offer for herself and her three-year-old-son, John. Bullock seeks to have Martha brought before the court and to have her refusal recorded as a matter of public record. This being been done, Martha elects to go to Canada whereupon the court rules that she is to be paid $67.01 in wages and appoints a commissioner "to carry said Martha & John to Canada."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
