John Brown and Moses Huggins ask that five slaves be brought back to the sheriff of Sumter District in order "to satisfy the executions of your orators." They assert that they recovered judgments against William E. Chambers; that "at the times ... when the judgments aforesaid were entered ... the said William E Chambers was residing in Sumter district and owned and had possession of" six slaves; that the slave "property was amply sufficient to satisfy the judgements aforesaid;" and that the slaves were "the only means with which their judgments would or could be satisfied, the said William E Chambers being the owner of no other property in the State." They charge that John Adger and William Ellison "had become bail ... for the said William E Chambers" and that they, "with the intent fraudulently to defeat the said liens and to indemnify and protect themselves as bail ... persuaded ... Chambers to permit them to take said negroes off and carry them beyond the limits of the said State." They note that the proceeds from the sale of the sixth slave were insufficient to satisfy said executions. They pray that the defendants "be required to bring back" said slaves for the satisfaction of their executions or that they "be ordered to pay to your orators the amounts due them respectively on said executions."
Result: Granted pro confesso.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
