Samuel D. Holloway, a free man of color, seeks to recover a slave named Ann. He cites that he loaned $400 to John Jackson, a free person of color, "for the purpose of purchasing a Negro Slave named Ann." Recounting that said Jackson was unable "to repay your orator the money he had advanced," Holloway states that Jackson "sold and delivered to your Orator the said Negro," whom he retained until 1849. Upon "finding the property unproductive," he avers that "he determined to sell the said Slave -- and delivered her over to his Guardian W. W. Kunhardt Esq. in order that he might place her in the hands of a Broker for Sale;" however, Ann, "learning She was to be sold[,] absconded or was enticed away." Holloway states that he found Ann in March 1850 "in the employ of B M Strobel and that she had been so for a length of time." He reports that he "demanded the said Slave from the said Strobel," who refused his request by asserting that John Mishaw, a free man of color and the trustee of the late John Jackson, and Francis Lance, the guardian of said Mishaw, "claimed the said Slave." Viewing said claim as "utterly groundless," he prays that the defendants "be decreed to deliver up the said Negro Ann to your orator" and that they "be compelled to account ... for the Wages and Services of said Slave for the time they respectively had her in possession or Employ."
Result: Discontinued.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
