The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-05-19
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yssg II. faed JOAN .Sfarle 81 Hnnortr coafi
.. slan. aud senl.-rced hun jail until ihe
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LIE fne and imprisonmeni 81 NJ SfaF@e'
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TIE record.
am. Gentlemen, your most oird.ent
Servant, CithEb iAfioh'
Ara Sapcrinr Court of Chi,ncery, hold
:. at the eapioI aforesaid, the 9Th day oil
March, 1879.
Martha II, Syme, fRi'
against
John Thnmpsnn Swarm, and Jane |. his
Wiz, Josiah Riddick, adm'or of Ann Maria
filiddiek, deceased, and Lrmnei KID
tick, Del Is.
aThi. snit wns 'trnught by Miss Symc,
..ihn plaintiil, u recover III the det'hdanls,
Tier proportion af the lands add sdres, and
She reuts and profits ihrreof, III the rr"
efedings mentioned aud, ~ lnng since IN
fannary, mao, on her motion. IVY ceueseb
~ Injunction Was granted 10 der, 10 re
strain the defendants, josiah kidd'ek ana
lspmn.l ltidilck, i%on selling er removing
not of the cuunis, aay at tie slaves or their
descendants, Whhh lad come 10 her pos
srssi,b, or ~ " hich she had derived title
,'iercto, lIndrr tao deeds ia the proceed.
.aes likewise sncntionee, which were in
The possession or power ofthc snfd drlen
ianls, at either of them aud also from
t,king possession of n negro mau ramrd
sar,ey, In her posstssidn, aud from dung |
.cy nci feeding 10 disinrbc her IN the pos
ses-iuo oi thr said slave.
AT ihr Jaeuery term, i8et, that order
seng dis,eg ,rded by thu defendant, Lem
Ia klddck, rs proved by the plaintiff, on
hrrmotien, BY Ce0nsrl. the Court award
"A an attachment .Nisi tins order wasex
=ehted bat the defendant nota ,irafing,
on the motion of thr plaintiff, the faie was
eilarged to the next Ju9e term when the
plaintiff not caing il up, Il went IL rest
nj Al January term, 1922, the cause came
eaVpon the merits, aud the plalnt'h Oh
taed a dectee for her proportion OF tie
liiids and slaves, and tor an account OF the
ccnts and profits thereof:
Commissioners in the county were ap-
painttd to divide both, aud commission |
er oil the Court was required 10 take the |
account frents and profits.
Thee Of the commissioners srpalnted
10 execute that decree, SO far rs Doctor
SWAMI WAS AGO mtahlr, ~ To slayeA, per
formed that duty, on the fifteenth ot June
last, and IN reporting II 10 the court, they !
say they had notified the defendant, Lem |
.ic niddiek, 10 produce the slaves for Oh /
Vision IN his possession, which he failed
10 comply with, aad had assigned no rea.
son Tor hi, failure. These com nissia1rts
had previously, an the second of March, |
had the lands surveyed aud divided and, |
10 matters stuud unul some tune IN Octo
Der las, whra the plHatI presented 10 the
Judge of this court, while he Mas holding
,ourl in Lyhchblug, another bill, stating
nong other things that, the defendant
f.rtnuel, had, since the institution at this
sliit, cone OF age, aud being indebted
very large sun for rents ard profits, and
i.srgardfpg the decree of tie court, bad
sud some OF the slaves, that we're subject
- distribution, aud Ind privately, aud IN
n the night, removed others amounting
n mnrt than tweatt IN number F, and, be.
'ure day, had ran them ON board ot Il steam
BOAT, NNi carried them off Ia parts un
Known; that TIE h1d left agents who "tf"
leaders in slaves, b, AIDE, to axe oil III"
.est and lhat he had left some honNshol'
furniture, stock of horses and cattle, Plan
'dioo utensils, aud CON on the plantation !
.ad the bill concludes With i prayer that
d. IL. 4 4 IL min
"A tn take into MS pussrssloA tae slaves, the
'ands, together with the stock OF horses,
.aas, Sc the crops on tive lands, together
Nth H.. household aud kitchen furniture,
nd the plantation utensils and to hold
l,en suhitci To the order Of this court ;
.5r this purpose the usual order Of iulunc
'lnn, which WAS also prayed FOR, was grant
"a, and Hpon thr usual terms. Tn Sub
.,eni WITH tle Injunction on II, was exec"t
4 On D. Swami, fvhO was likewise mad"
,ltiendant) % the twentieth of Detrm
tarhsl +; Ia which Subpoena is sahjolnrd =
st OF tie property belonging 10 ,Hr. HI
.',cle. tht was taken possession of by the
,arshal, IN nii The lands, aud, thu Whole
i She remaining slaves, With TIE p'tshual
,opcrty b,sidts, iuciudi1g thr W ,ttas
.,,parel, which lie had mot carend oils Aoi
take care az this property, the Marshal
eat Mr.. We.ef in posSessnn at thr
tads with direction to secure the crops,
l,iag up most of the so Ids and rhaiteis
the house in which Mr.. Riddek had
med. and where Mr.. Weber was then to
aye, took three trunks, two of wearing ap
nod. aud ooe Of plate, and carried them
Mr.. Wetsger's near aeighbour: Add
AS stood matters when the court, on thu
41tion Of the plaintiff on the twenty 81