Absalom Yancey petitions the court to compel Thomas Bram to provide security for the safekeeping of a young slave named Phebe. Yancey contends that he purchased Phebe from Hinton Bram & Co., Thomas's brother, in 1825. According to Yancey, Hinton had himself purchased Phebe from Thomas, his brother, but allowed her to remain with Thomas "for the purpose of assisting his family the said Thomas being in indigent circumstances." Phebe is still in Thomas's possession and the latter refuses to return her. Moreover, he "has made repeated threats that he would run the said negro Phebe off, so as to be out of the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court." The court ordered the sheriff of the county to take the slave into his custody unless Thomas paid $700 in security for the safekeeping of the slave.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
