On 10 March 1858, Jacob Bankard bought a twenty-year-old term slave named Minerva McGee from Henry Griffin. McGee ran away soon after the sale and Bankard did not know her whereabouts. He learned several days ago that McGee "had been arrested for a larceny and is now in the jail of Baltimore City." The petitioner further alleges that McGee "is in the habit of running away having absconded from former owner or owners." Having "obtained leave from the State's Attorney for Baltimore City" to petition for the sale of McGee, Bankard asks the court "to pass an order for the sale of said negro."
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
