Petition #20785402

• Barren County, Kentucky. March 25, 1854. - circa 0 .
• Court: Circuit

Abstract

Lucinda Gassaway received real and personal property from the estate of her late husband, Dabney Turner. Later Gassaway married Henry Emerson, and following his death, John Mathews was appointed administrator of Emerson's estate. Before Lucinda and James Gassaway married, they entered into an indenture that gave her a life estate in all the property devised by Dabney Turner's will. Charging Mathews with illegally disposing of estate property, Lucinda asks for monetary damages, the funds from the hire of the slaves, and removal of Mathews as commissioner of her affairs.

• Number of petition pages: 11
• Related documents: Indenture, Lucinda Emerson and James H. Gassaway, 25 January 1850; Certificate, 15 September 1851; Deed, Zachariah Emerson, 15 November 1847; Agreement, James and Lucinda Gassaway and John Matthews, 5 January 1855
• Pages of related documents: 10

41 people are documented within petition 20785402

• 38 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, Equity Judgments
• Microfilm: Reel #229757

Subjects

• Forced reproduction
• Prenuptial agreement
• Inventory (enslaved)
• Property owners (women)