Petition #21684021

• Halifax County, Virginia. April 3, 1840. - April 3, 1840.
• Court: Circuit Superior
• Salutation: To the Honorable William Leigh Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery for the County of Halifax

Abstract

Six slaves ask to sue in forma pauperis for their freedom. They claim that the late "Philip E Vass Emancipated your petitioners, Jacob and Mary by name ... and also such of the slaves of his fathers Estate as should be allotted to him in the division about to be made." Sam, Merriweather, and Patty were assigned to Vass's estate after the division of his father's estate. Isaac Medley, Vass's executor, continues to hold the petitioners in bondage, "expressing doubts" of their claim to freedom. The petitioners pray that they be allowed to sue Isaac Medley "for the recovery of their freedom."

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #11284401, #11684108, #11684209, #11686005, #21683236, #21684022, #21684125, #21684322, #21685030; Order, 3 April 1840
• Pages of related documents: 0

9 people are documented within petition 21684021

• 6 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 6 Petitioners
• 2 Others

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• found in General Assembly, Session Records, Senate Committee Reports, November 1844--January 1845

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Sues for freedom (enslaved)