Drury Scott reveals that his eleven-year-old son Bryant "has been Sold as a Slave." He reports that he became indebted to one William Grant for $25 and that the said Grant, "by false promises fraud, & intrigue combined with the illiterate situation of your orator," succeeded in prevailing upon him "to Secure the aforesaid Debt with a morgage of the unexpired services of your Orator's [son] -- Briant Scott, who was a free colloured boy." Scott avers that the said Grant confided to others "that so soon as he got his hands on the free colloured boy that he would make good property out of him." He cites that Grant seized the child when only $5 remained unpaid, noting further that Grant "refused to receive the ballance of money Due on Said morgage or to redeliver the said boy to your Orator." Believing that his son has been sold and removed to Kentucky, Scott laments "that his said child is bound down in perpetual Slavery in a land where he has no friend to relieve him nor any parent to Sympathise with him for his awfull Situation." He prays that the defendants be restrained from leaving the state and that they "be ordered to bring in to this Honorable court the said free coloured boy that they have so unjustly & inhumanly put away in Slavery."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
