Researched and Submitted by: Deloris Williams
Posted: 11 January 2011
Additions, Corrections and other Comments to: earl.bell3@gmail.com
Following are abstracts of petitions filed by Nash County Citizens from the Digital Library on American Slavery Collection.
These records include the names of many slaves and their owners which can be very valuable for those researching their slave ancestors or their slave owning families.
The outcome of the petitions is as indicated in the record.
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State: North Carolina Year: 1793
Location: Nash County
Sheriff Archibald Griffin avows that he did “Execute an Hang’d a certain Negro woman Named Beck the property of Sarah Taylor’s” and that “the fees have been hitherto Five pounds for Each Execution in Criminal cases.” Griffin states that he “is without Redress unless thro this Honorable Assembly’s Equitable & Just interposition.” Beck was tried and convicted of poisoning Harry Taylor Sr., Harry Taylor Jr., and Samuel Taylor.
Result: No recorded result
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State: North Carolina Year: 1802
Location: Nash County
John Jones seeks compensation for a slave that he purchased “for the purpose, of selling him” in Georgia. Jones reports that said slave “ran away from your petitioner and returned to North Carolina where for his villainous actions was Sentenced to death and accordingly executed.” He therefore prays that a resolution be passed “directing the Treasurer to pay to him a sum equal to the loss he sustained thereby.”
Result: rejected
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State: North Carolina Year: 1812
Location: Nash County
Thomas Hambleton of Nash County reports that he petitioned for the emancipation of “a negroe girl called Silvey” in order to carry “the Will of Abraham Bass into Execution” and that his prayer was granted at “the last Session Past.” Hambleton reveals that “unfortunately between the time of my petitioning to your Honourable Body and the passage of the Law the said negroe Girl Silvey was Deliverd of a Girl Child.” The petitioner therefore prays that Silvey’s daughter Violet be emancipated, placing her “on the same footting which in your Wisdom have thought proper to place her Mother in.”
Result: granted
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State: North Carolina Year: 1818
Location: Nash County
Thirty-two citizens of Nash County find the “progress of vice and immorality, the daring thefts and Roberies daily commited, the increasing insolence of the slaves; the growing numbers and influence of free negroes and molatoes” quite alarming. They therefore “most earnestly pray that your honorable body would take the premises into consideration and so amend the present patroling laws.” They “do farther pray that a law may pass forbidding female free negroes or molatoes from intermarrying with Slaves (either with or without the consent of the owner of such Slave or Slaves)” unless the said owner/s “give bonds with sufficient security to keep their progeny free of the parish.”
Result: House, Senate: read, referred
Petitioners: John Barnes, William Bellamy, John Bisset, Wilson Collins, James Drake, John H. Drake, William Drake, Robert Eatman, James Hilliard, John Rose
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State: North Carolina Year: 1832
Location: Nash County
Married for almost forty-seven years, Piety Tisdale prays for a divorce and alimony from her husband William Tisdale. Piety informs the court that she and William lived together happily for fifteen years, she explains, but then William began “to carry on speculations in negroes & commenced the indulgence of dissipated habits, which grew upon him slowly but regularly for the span of fifteen years or thereabouts.” Eventually, she says, he became “brutal & ferocious,” a drunk and a spendthrift, finally abandoning her and their children, one them a crippled boy, altogether.
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State: North Carolina Year: 1847
Location: Nash County
The petitioners are tenants in common of twelve slaves. They ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves into two equal parts. Result: granted
Petitioners: Frances Ann Dortch, Mary Pope, William A. Pope
Slaves:
Allen – black male
Archer – black male
Calvin – black male
Chaney ([Chancey]) -black female
Ivana – black female
Jerry – black male
Kizzy -black female
Liberty – black female
Lucy – black female
Mathew -black male
Sarah – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1851
Location: Nash County
The joint owners, including a minor, of three slaves ask that “their respective shares or proportions” be given to them “in severalty.” If a division cannot be made, they ask that the slaves be sold and the proceeds divided.
Result: granted
Petitioners: Calvin Spicer, Harriet J. H. Spicer, Margaret A. W. Taylor, John D. Whitly
Slaves:
Jim – black male
Milla – black female
Nerva – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1853
Location: Nash County
Calvin W. Ward, his wife Ann Eliza Ward, and Frances Ann Bunting are tenants in common of the following slaves: Mourning, Hawkins, Louisa, and Manda. The petitioners seek the appointment of freeholders and the equal division of the slaves.
Result: granted
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State: North Carolina Year: 1853
Location: Nash County
After twenty-five years of marriage, Sarah Williamson seeks a divorce and alimony. She charges that her husband drinks excessively, and has compelled her “to submit to many indignities.” At one point she was driven from the house and forced to take shelter in the woods, and on another occasion he beat her so severely that she remained in bed for eight or ten days. He owns twelve slaves, eight hundred acres of land, and outstanding loans worth one thousand dollars, she says; he is worth about ten thousand dollars.
Result: No recorded result
Defendant: Isaac Williamson
Others Named in Petition: Elijah Powell -FPOC
Slaves:
Ben – black male
Harry – black male
Lewis – black male
Margarett – black female
Reuben – black male
Viney – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1854
Location: Nash County
In 1849, shortly after the birth of their only child, Harriett Bailey’s husband, Sefair Bailey, abandoned her and moved out to “the Southwest or some other distant part of the Country.” She heard from him only once, and believes he is now living with another woman. She asks for a divorce and alimony, noting that Sefair’s mother has a life estate in six slaves, inherited from Sefair’s grandfather, and that Sefair is entitled to a one-fifth share of this property. She asks that the one-fifth share be included as part of her alimony.
Result: granted
Related Documents: Oath, Harriet Bailey, 21 March 1854; Subpoena, March 1854; Decree,
September Term 1855
Slaves from Life Estate of Betsey Bailey, owned in 1854:
Wary – male
Ann -female
Hill -male
Jane -female
Edwin ([Erwin]) male
Margarett -female
Slaves from Ownership History Estate of Joel Tisdale, owned in 1855:
Ann – female
Hill – male
Jane – female
Edwin ([Erwin]) – male
Margarett – female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1859
Location: Orange County
Abstract: Arrested and jailed as a fugitive slave, free black Henry Morgan, a native of Nash County, asks that a writ of habeas corpus be directed to the sheriff of Orange County.
Result: granted
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State: North Carolina Year: 1857
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of eight slaves ask to divide the slave property either by distribution or sale.
Result: granted
Petitioners: Elijah E. Barrett, John W. Barrett, Jesse Beal
Slaves:
Alce – black
Bud – black male
Henry – black male
Joshua – black male
Laura – black female
Lucy – black female
Martha – black female
Wash – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1857
Nash County
The joint owners of thirteen slaves, including Piety and her son Harry, ask to divide the slave property either by distribution or sale.
Result: granted
Petitioners: G. R. Marshborne, Josiah J. Marshborne, Louisa Marshborne, Samuel W. Marshborne, Josiah Robertson, Martha Robertson
Defendants: John R. Marshborne, Mary A. Marshborne, Rebecca Marshborne
Slaves:
Amanda – black female
Benjamin – black male
Birchet – black
Ellen – black female
Harry – black male
Hellen – black male
Jacob – black male
Jane – black female
Jim – black male
Lowry – black male
Mourning – black female
Piety – black female
Willis – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1858
Location: Nash County
Nero Ricks and John Ricks, the latter a minor, are tenants in common of six slaves. They desire the division of the property and seek the appointment of three freeholders.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: John Ricks, Nero Ricks (sons of John Ricks, see below), B. H. Sorsby
Slaves:
Abram – black male
Isaac – black male
Leah – black female
Mourning – black female
Patty – black female
[Under “Wills” at this site, also see the Will of John Ricks – 6 February 1845
John Ricks was the grandfather of Buchanan “Buck” Harper [1856 – 1925] of Nashville Township, Nash County, NC, husband of Sallie Griffin Harper [1851 – 1907]; great grandfather of Mary “Mamie” William Harper Bell [1882 – 1941], wife of Albert Turner Bell [1884 – 1946] of Nashville Township, Nash County, NC; ggg grandfather of Nell Proctor McCaskill of Laurinburg, NC, Yates Proctor (deceased) of Rocky Mt., NC, Steve Proctor of Rocky Mt., NC, Cora Bell Young of Jonesborough, TN, Ann Bell Young of Six Mile, SC, Mary Bell Worrell of Raleigh, NC, Earl P. Bell, Jr., of Olympia Fields, IL, Mary Alice Bell Bragg of Burlington, NC, William Hansel Bell (deceased) of Benicia, California, Edward Dunn of Raleigh, NC, Wayne Dunn of Raleigh, NC, Joann Dunn Bynum of Greenville, NC, Rose Bell of Leesburg, VA and Myra Bell Johnson of Siler City, NC. Date posted: 19 January 2011]
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State: North Carolina Year: 1859
Location: Orange County
Abstract: Arrested and jailed as a fugitive slave, free black Henry Morgan, a native of Nash County, asks that a writ of habeas corpus be directed to the sheriff of Orange County.
Result: granted
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State: North Carolina Year: 1859
Location: Nash County
The petitioners are tenants in common of twenty-two slaves. They ask the court to appoint three commissioners to divide the slaves, giving “one third to your petitioner, Amariah F. and two thirds to your petitioner Martha D.” If such a division cannot be made the petitioners ask the court to sell the slaves and give to each petitioner their share of the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: L. N. B. Battle, Amariah F. Freeman, Martha F. Freeman
Slaves:
Alfred – black male
Berry – black male
Boston – black male
Burell – black male
Cora – black female
Dick – black male
Essex – black male
Handy – black male
Harriet – black female
Henry – black male
Hodge – black male
Indiana – black female
Isham – black male
Jane – black female
Julia – black female
Lucy – black female
Minerva – black female
Oscar – black male
Sam – black male
Willis – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1859
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of six slaves ask for a distribution of their slave property.
Result: granted
Petitioners: Robert H. Pridgen, Susan Pridgen, Thomas W. Taylor, Elizabeth Williams, Harriet Williams, Henry C. Williams
Slaves:
Celia – black female
Isham – black male
Mariah – black female
Sam – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1859
Location: Nash County
The petitioners are tenants in common of approximately twenty-six slaves. They ask the court to appoint three commissioners to divide the slaves “in three equal shares.”
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Ann Rice, Bryant D. Rice, A. A. Taylor, Sonora Taylor, Sallie Williams,
William A. Williams
Slaves:
Barzella – black female
Bird – black male
Bob – black male
Chana – black female
Dallas – black male
Della – black female
Esther – black female
Henry – black male
Ida – black female
Jennett – black female
Lizza – black female
Lucinda – black female
Lucy – black female
Nick – black male
Oliver – black male
Thom – black male
Thom – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1860
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of twenty-nine slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to appoint a person to sell the slaves so that they can share the proceeds.
Result: granted
Petitioners: William T. Arrington, Cornelia V. Vick, Samuel S. Vick, Tholock C. Vick, Virginia D. Vick
Slaves:
Alice – black female
Amy – black female
Aucilla – black female
Benjamin – black male
Burton – black male
Calvey – black male
Cate – black female
Chany – black female
Chester – black male
Dawson – black male
Hilliard – black male
Isabella – black female
Jack – black male
Jerry – black male
Joana – black female
John – black male
Lawson – black male
Leah – black female
Lewis – black male
Lucy – black female
Mose – black male
Nannie – black female
Neverson – black male
Richard – black male
Temperance – black female
Thomas – black male
Tilly – black female
Wallace – black female
Willie – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1860
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of twenty-five slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to appoint a person to sell the slaves so that they can share the proceeds.
Result: granted
Petitioners: Elizabeth Braddy, Kissey Etheridge, George Evans, Jacob Evans, Nathan Evans, James Hall, Sally Hall, Elizabeth Tisdale, John Tisdale, John Warbleton, Kissey Warbleton, Martha Warbleton, Mary Warbleton
Slaves:
Abner – black male
Allen – black male
Bob – black male
Cary – black male
Diana – black female
Franky – black male
Ginny – black female
Harry – black male
Henry – black male
Isaac – black male
Jack – black male
Linda – black female
Louis – black male
Lucy – black female
Milbey – black female
Nick – black male
Olive – black female
Rob – black male
Rose – black female
Sam – black male
Sarah – black female
Silvey – black female
Stephen – black male
Suck – black female
Vina – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1860
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of nine slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to appoint a person to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: granted
Petitioners: Jones Batchelor, Reby Anne Batchelor, David M. Manning, Eli M. Manning, Lucy Ann Manning, Prssillary Manning, Richard M. Manning.
Slaves:
Berry ([Benj]) – black male
Ellen – black female
Henry – black male
Isham – black male
Jacob – black male
Jane – black female
Jinny – black female
Jordan – black male
Kissey – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1860
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of five male slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to appoint a person to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: granted
Petitioners: John H. Joyner, Moses Joyner, Orren E. Joyner
Slaves:
Edmund – black male
Gray – black male
Mingo – black male
Ned – black male
Reddick – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1861
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of five slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Guilford Coley, Mary Coley, George Hackney, Martha Ann Hackney, Thomas Hackney, Maranda Hester, John T. Sexton, Susan Sexton, George Turner, Henry Turner, Joseph J. Turner, Letitia Turner, Rebecca Turner
Slaves:
Caesar – black male
Jordan – black male
Polly – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1861
Location: Nash County
After two months of marriage, Mary E. Moore testifies, her husband “cruelly and heartlessly abandoned her, and soon thereafter left the State.” She blames her husband’s conduct on the machinations of his mother abetted by his uncle. Richard Moore is possessed of a comfortable estate, including a large tract of land and eight slaves. She fears he will liquidate his property in an attempt to keep her from receiving alimony. She seeks a writ of sequestration to prevent him from selling, or disposing of his property, and asks for a divorce and alimony.
Result: partially granted
Slaves:
Allen – black male
Bob – black male
Isadore – black male
John – black male
Julia – black female
Lucien – black male
Luke – black male
Senora – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1862
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of nine slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Jackey Ann Daniel, Martha F. Daniel, Elizabeth D. Hedgpeth, Francis Hedgpeth, Henry Yarborough, Sally Ann Yarborough.
Slaves:
Celee – black female
Edmund – black male
Fanny – black female
Fed – black male
Louisa – black female
Mary – black female
Phillis – black female
Preston – black male
Prince – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1862
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of three slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Frances Boddie, W. W. Boddie, Sidney Harper, W. J. B. Harper, D. A. T. Ricks, George Ricks, Jerome Ricks, John A. Ricks, William Ricks, Indiana Taylor, K. Taylor.
Slaves:
Isaac – black male
Leah – black female
[William John Batchelor Harper, Jr. and his wife Sidney Smith Ricks Harper, listed above, are the parents of Buchanan “Buck” Harper [1856 – 1925] of Nashville Township, Nash County, NC, husband of Sallie Griffin Harper [1851 – 1907]; grandparents of Mary “Mamie” William Harper Bell [1882 – 1941], wife of Albert Turner Bell [1884 – 1946] of Nashville Township, Nash County, NC; great, great grandparents of Nell Proctor McCaskill of Laurinburg, NC, Yates Proctor (deceased) of Rocky Mt., NC, Steve Proctor of Rocky Mt., NC, Cora Bell Young of Jonesborough, TN, Ann Bell Young of Six Mile, SC, Mary Bell Worrell of Raleigh, NC, Earl P. Bell, Jr., of Olympia Fields, IL, Mary Alice Bell Bragg of Burlington, NC, William Hansel Bell (deceased) of Benicia, California, Edward Dunn of Raleigh, NC, Wayne Dunn of Raleigh, NC, Joann Dunn Bynum of Greenville, NC, Rose Bell of Leesburg, VA and Myra Bell Johnson of Siler City, NC. Date posted: 19 January 2011]
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State: North Carolina Year: 1862
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of eleven slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Bethany Batchelor, Tranquilla Batchelor, William Batchelor, Henderson Morgan, Lucy Morgan
Slaves:
America – black
Amy – black female
Fereby – black female
Hawkins – black male
Matilda – black female
Nathan – black male
Penny – black female
Puss – black female
Thomas -black male
Turner -black male
Vilet – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
Abstract: The joint owners of Isham ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slave, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slave and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Jones Batchelor, Riely Ann Batchelor, David M. Manning, Eli Manning, Leecy Manning, Pensyllana Manning
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The partial owner of forty-two slaves asks the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds among petitioner and the defendants in seven equal shares.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioner: Caroline Mann
Defendants: Benjamin D. Mann, DeWitt Mann, Elizabeth Mann, Lilla Mann, Mary Mann, William R. Mann.
Alfred – black male
Auma – black female
Benja – black male
Bet ([Bit]) – black female
Bob – black male
Calvin – black male
Charity – black female
Clara – black female
Cora – black female
Delia – black female
Dorses – black
Elder – black male
Flora – black female
George – black male
Harriet – black female
Isabella – black female
Isham – black male
Israel ([Ismel]) – black male
Jane – black female
John – black male
Kesiah – black female
Lea – black female
Levy – black male
Lucinda – black female
Major – black male
Marchus – black male
Martha – black female
Mary Jane- black female
Nancy – black female
Ned – black male
Nen – black
Pat – black
Phil – black male
Ron – black male
Sal – black female
Sallie – black female
Sarah – black female
Tempy – black female
Toby – black male
Tom – black male
William – black male
William – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of Henrietta, Silvia and her child ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Martha Barnes, Davis Barrett, Benjamin Edwards, Sally Edwards, Susan Winbourne
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of seventy-seven slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds among petitioners and defendants.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Alexander Hilliard, Elizabeth Hilliard, Jesse P. Hilliard
Defendants: Blanche Hilliard, Elijah B. Hilliard, Mary Hilliard, Sidney Hilliard
Slaves:
Abe – black male
Adeline – black female
Albert – black male
Albert – black male
Alcy – black female
Alice – black female
Arvina – black female
Augustus – black male
Becky – black female
Ben – black male
Caroline – black female
Chany – black female
Clam – black male
Clary ([Little Clary]) -black female
Coutny – black
Denilson – black male
Dice – black female
Dorcas – black female
Elijah – black male
Eliza – black female
Eller – black female
Emma – black female
Frances – black female
Frank – black male
Hinton – black male
Isaac – black male
Isabel – black female
Isham – black male
Jane – black female
Jany – black female
Jim – black male
Joe – black male
Julia – black female
Kinchin – black male
Leah – black female
Lewis – black male
Lewis – black male
Liddy – black female
Lisby – black female
Lizza – black female
Lot – black male
Lucy – black female
Luter ([Lester]) – black male
Luther – black male
Major – black male
Martha – black female
Mary ([Old Mary]) – black female
Mary ([Little Mary]) – black female
Matilda – black female
Molly – black female
Morning – black female
Moses – black male
Ned – black male
Nelly – black female
Patsy – black female
Peter – black male
Philip – black male
Philis – black female
Rinely – black
Robert – black male
Rosetta – black female
Sam – black male
Sarah – black female
Solomon – black male
Susan – black female
Thomas – black male
Tony – black male
Vestal – black female
Violet – black female
Washington – black male
William – black male
William – black male
Wilson – black male
John Early – black male
John Kitchen – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The joint owners of thirteen slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: N. W. Cooper [Nash County Sheriff], Samuel Vick, Virginia Vick.
Slaves:
Chester – black male
Dick – black male
Dosson – black male
Jerry – black male
Leah – black female
Lewis – black male
Lucy – black female
Matilda – black female
Silva – black female
Tempy – black female
Wallace – black male
Willis – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The petitioner is a tenant in common with the defendants to eleven slaves. He is entitled to two-tenths of the slaves. Deans asks the court to appoint three commissioners to divide the slaves and allot to him his share.
Result: granted
Petitioner: George C. Deans
Defendants: A. Jackson Deans, Evan H. Deans, Felix Deans, James J. E. Deans, Joana M. Deans, L. Rody Deans, Missouri Deans, Samuel A. Deans.
Slaves:
Berry -black male
Charlotte – black female
Clark – black male
Della – black female
Florence ([Lawrence]) – black female
Ginny – black female
Hannah – black female
Nelly ([Nell]) – black female
Robb – black male
Violet – black female
Virgil – black male
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The joint owner of twenty-two slaves asks the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds among the petitioner and defendants in six equal shares.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioner: Robb Barnes
Defendants: B. B. Williford, B. R. Williford, C. J. Williford, L. T. Williford, M. M. Williford.
Slaves:
Caesar – black male
Carus – black male
Fanny – black female
Florence – black female
Frances – black female
George – black male
Jim – black male
John – black male
Josh – black male
Louiza – black female
Lucy – black female
Mariah – black female
Martha – black female
Mary – black female
Prissy – black female
Puss – black female
Sarah – black female
Sarry – black female
Silvy – black female
Washington – black male
William – black male
Winny (d)- black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1863
Location: Nash County
The petitioners are tenants in common of seven slaves and desire a
division. They ask the court to appoint three commissioners to divide the
slaves and allot to the petitioners their respective shares.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: J. Braswell, Sarah Braswell,
Slaves:
Cambric – black male
Green – black male
Isham – black male
Jacob – black male
Jane – black female
Kinchen – black male
Sarah – black female
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State: North Carolina Year: 1864
Location: Nash County
Three joint owners of twenty-four slaves ask the court to appoint three freeholders to divide the slaves, or, if a sale is deemed necessary, to sell the slaves and distribute the proceeds in four equal parts. The fourth joint owner is unnamed.
Result: No recorded result
Petitioners: Martha Drake, Rebecca E. Harrington, John C. Hines.
Slaves:
Alice – black female
Allen – black male
Amanda – black female
Caroline – black female
Elizabeth – black female
Ephraim – black male
Faith – black female
Fanny – black female
Jane – black female
Joe – black male
John – black male
Leah – black female
Louisa – black female
Lucy – black female
Mary – black female
Mourning – black female
Peter – black male
Prince – black male
Richmond – black male
Roena – black female
Susan – black female
Turner -black male
Wallace – black male
William – black male