Samuel Hopkins, the executor of the estate of the late James Knight, asks to sell a term slave belonging to the estate as a slave for life. Knight's will stipulated that his twenty-two-year-old slave, Lewis Hall, be manumitted when he arrived at the age of twenty-eight and his term of service expired. Hopkins claims that the estate is in debt and it is necessary to sell Hall to discharge the debts. The petitioner is currently keeping him in the Baltimore County jail because he has "proved refractory" and threatened to run away.
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
