John Anderson, a merchant of Savannah, Georgia, seeks to recover money owed to him by William E. Chambers of Marion County, Florida, and Hugh K. Aiken of South Carolina. In 1856 Chambers agreed to settle his debts with Anderson by executing a promissory note as well as mortgages for a tract of land in Marion County, Florida and a twenty-two-year-old slave named Thomas. At the time of this agreement, Chambers was also indebted to Hugh K. Aiken of South Carolina. In 1857 Aiken went to Florida and met with Chambers, who agreed to settle their debts by surrendering Thomas to him. Aiken took possession of Thomas and sent him to Charleston, where he was sold on 10 June 1857 to "some person who carried him to some of the Western States." Claiming that Thomas was his property by virtue of the 1856 mortgage, the petitioner asks that Hugh Aiken be ordered to compensate him for the value of said slave.
Result: Dismissed; granted on appeal.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
