Calvin Craddock seeks to stay the sale of a slave named Anderson, "who was purchased to be employed as a boatman, and was thus for years associated with your Orator, and other sons of his master, who were and still are boatmen also." He reveals that over the years he became attached to Anderson and admired "his long and faithful service." Craddock recounts that his father "became embarrassed" in 1842 and "became unable to pay his debts," forcing him to sell Anderson to Luther Craddock, his brother. "Being desirous ... of owning the slave Anderson," the petitioner cites that he paid $400 to his uncle and "received from the said Luther N Craddock a bill of sale dated the 3rd day of January 1843." Having hired Anderson out "for the present year," he avers that he "has been informed in the last few days that the said negro is now in Jail in the County of Culpepper, having there been levied upon under an execution ... against John Craddock." Craddock confides "that he has more than an ordinary attachment to and regard for the slave Anderson, for whose loss should he be sold, your Orator cannot be adequately compensated." He therefore prays that the defendants "may be enjoined from the sale of the slave Anderson" and that "he may be delivered up to your Orator or to L. Whitehurst," to whom he has been hired.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
