Mary Cobb asks that Ann Reynolds pay her $300 for a female slave named Leely and "the wages of the said slave" for the past several months. Cobb contends that she agreed to hire Leely to Reynolds in March 1818 "at the rate of six dollars per month" and that she informed Reynolds that the said slave had "before that time absconded from your oratrix, and being at that time concealed and lurking in and about Columbia." Reporting that Reynolds "agreed to be at the risk and trouble of finding and getting possession of the said slave," the petitioner states that she offered to sell Leely to Reynolds for $300, "provided the said Ann would pay the same immediately in cash;" however, Reynolds refused and "the negociation was broken off." Cobb states that Reynolds applied to her in April, and later in July, to buy the said slave, but she refused said offer, having "made up her mind not to sell the said slave to any person in Columbia." Noting that said Leely had been "convicted and ordered to be whipped" for insulting one of her female relatives "in the public streets," Cobb charges that, "after the sentence was inflicted," Reynolds and a confederate "violently interposed" and "carried off the said slave." Averring that Reynolds "continues to keep possession of the said slave," Cobb prays that she "deliver up the said slave" to her and "account for her wages" or pay her the said $300 "together with the wages of the said slave."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
