David Foreman, the trustee of Caroline Foreman Bush, asks "that the slave Sophy and her children may be specifically delivered to your Orator." He states that Benjamin Foreman in 1835 "executed a deed of gift, and thereby gave and granted to your Orator two female slaves namely Sophy and Sucky with their future issue and increase; to have and to hold the said slaves ... in trust for the sole, separate and exclusive use and benefit" of his daughter Caroline. He reports, however, that executions issued against Samuel Bush, the husband of said Caroline; that the sheriff "seized and levied on the said slave Sophy and her child William" in 1843; and that Joseph Neilson purchased both slaves, thereby "denying the title of your orator to them." He recounts that he brought suit and that the court awarded him $775, "as the value of Sophy and her children." Citing that Caroline is "personally attached" to Sophy, he asserts that he "offered and proposed to the said Joseph Neilson to release the said sum [$775] if he the said Joseph Neilson would deliver the said slaves to your Orator." Foreman declares that Neilson refused "to accede" his offer, even though the court had established "your Orators legal right to the possession of the said slaves." He therefore prays that Neilson deliver the slaves and that he and Sheriff Walker "be restrained from selling the said slaves either as the property of Samuel B. Bush or Joseph Neilson."
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
