In 1818, Mansfield Watkins hired "a negroe boy named Aron" for fifty dollars from George Keesee, guardian of Francis Binford. Watkins executed his bond to Keesee, and Macon Ford, of "Thos White & Co," served as security. Watkins cites that he "employed the said boy about three or four months & having then discontinued manufacturing tobacco for which purpose he had hired the sd boy Aron & having no employment for him your Orator Watkins hired the said boy to one Macon Green." He then reveals that Aron "was taken by the said Keesee from the possession of the said Green & was never during the rest of the year returned either to the possession of your Orator Watkins or to the said Green so that your Orator lost the labor of the said negroe boy entirely." Stating that "the sd Keesee in Feby last instituted a suit on the abovementioned note against your Orator Watkins" and Ford as security, the petitioners pray "that the whole of the said Judgment may be injoined till the matters & things herein before stated shall be fully heard in a Court of Equity."
Result: Injunction granted; dissolved; dismissed.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
