Susannah Bond supplements an earlier petition for divorce from her husband, Sylvester Bond, by seeking an injunction and an attachment preventing her husband and his brother, John Bond, from removing his slaves "beyond the jurisdiction of the Court." She claims that her husband "has been pretending to sell his property so as to defeat the claim of your Oratrix to a settlement or provision out of the same." He specifically taunted her by declaring that "he would sell all his property for one cent & pocket that before she should have any of it." To accomplish that end, Sylvester has allegedly conveyed his five slaves to his brother, John Bond. The slaves, however, are still in Sylvester's possession, and he still employs them. The petitioner asks the court to issue writs of ne exeat and injunction, preventing the defendants from leaving the county and finalizing their transaction. [Race and Slavery Petitions Project does not hold Bond's original bill.]
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
