John Gamble seeks compensation for the "care, maintenance & support" of his forty-year-old sister, Elizabeth, who is of "unsound mind" and "requires as much assistance watchfulness & care as an infant." Gamble represents that he has kept Elizabeth at his own house, paid her medical bills "for the last Fifteen or Sixteen Years," and "had the trouble & expense of rearing feeding & clothing two negro slaves, from their infancy to the present time." Now, "less able, than he was formerly to bear the constant drain upon his purse & his industry," he asks that "his past expenditures be reimbursed him & that he be allowed a fair compensation for the past maintenance of his sd sister & for her future support." Gamble further requests that the clerk and master be directed to "take an account" of the debts due him from the said Elizabeth and to ascertain if it would be "expedient" to sell the thirteen-year-old male slave and the fifteen-year-old female slave in order to raise a fund for Elizabeth's support. A related deposition reveals that the slaves are the children of Elizabeth's sole slave, who "was drowned some thirteen or fourteen years" ago.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
