William Whitton purchased several slaves, including a slave named Squire, at an auction from the creditors of the late Alexander McDaniel in 1818. Whitton "permitted the Slaves to remain on the plantation where they had made a crop that year" for the benefit of his daughter, the widow of said McDaniel. In 1822, William Terry, another creditor of McDaniel's, secured a judgment against McDaniel's estate. Sheriff Richard Scruggs confiscated Squire and threatens to sell him "to the manifest injury and oppression of your Orator" in that he "might be deprived of him altogether or be driven to a vexatious and burthensome law suit for his recovery. Whitton asks the court to prevent William Terry and Richard Scruggs from selling Squire. [Petition appears to be missing a page(s).]
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
