Philip Coleman and his wife Amy, freed people, are forced to rely on their daily labor and "the small pittance they now seek to recover through the medium of this Honorable Court." When Amy's slave father, a body servant and butler to the late Thomas McGehee, died sometime in or before 1860, he had saved two hundred dollars. On his deathbed, he instructed his owner to divide the money among his four daughters. McGehee did so by handing over the money to an unnamed person who supposedly invested it on the daughters' behalf. However, Amy never received her share and she and her husband sue the unnamed person to gain their property.
Or you may view all people.
Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
