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Final Record Chancery Court Spring 1844 to Spring 1847 in Book 4480
John C. Dansby vs John
B. Hogan Maria S. Hogan (his wife) Elias Tillinghast John Whitfield Bill to
foreclose mortgage.
On
24 Jan 1837
Daniel H. Tillinghast of Marengo County but now deceased was indebted to John
Whitfield of Marengo County for a large sum of money. Part of which was a note
for 1375 payable on the 1st day of Jan in 1841.
Julius C. Branch vs. Henry A. Taylor
In the fall of 1841 Henry A. Taylor received a judgment against your orator for
about the sum of 700, the sum has not been collected. On
15 March 1842
the judgment remained unpaid.
John I. Cleveland & Nancy
Dawson & her husband, Peter Dawson vs. John Whitehead & Joseph B.
Whitehead
John I. Cleveland of Green County and Nancy Dawson of Marengo County that
on the 1st day of Sep 1843, Elizabeth Arendell, the mother of your
oratrix, the said Nancy, with her husband, Alarich D. Arendell made and
delivered to John I. Cleveland a certain deed of trust which included a number
of slaves.
Exhibit A,
I, Elizabeth Arendall give to my daughter, Nancy Dawson,
wife of Peter Dawson of Marengo County and also for $10 paid by John Cleveland
to Alarich Arendell, husband of the said Elizabeth, (Arendell’s were from
Sumter Co., AL) have granted, sold and delivered to John I. Cleveland the
following Mulatto slave, Charlotte, a woman about 36 years old, and her
children-Salisbury a boy about four years old, and Hammett a boy about 6 years
old.
#67 David Tindall & wife Thomas
Dickson White
William Jasper White John Dickson Vs. John B. Anderson, Henry C. White
Presley Odom & Lucy Odom, Sarah Cranford, and Lucy Hare
Petition to recover slaves.
Click here for a detailed account of this
lawsuit.
#75 Petition of Elizabeth McRae
Elizabth McRae under the age of 14 by her guardian, Joseph
Pickett, represents unto your honor that Christopher McRae late of Anson Co., NC
at the time of his death possessed property and published his last will and
testament bearing the date of
26 Jan 1837
. He gave the residue of his estate to Abaslom Myers and Alexander Little of
Anson County for the benefit of heirs; John G. McLendon , Isabella Teal, wife of
William Teal, Margaret Teal, wife of Allen Teal, Elizabeth McRae, daughter of my
grandson, Daniel McRae, and that the following 3 persons towit; Polly Capel,
Caty Bagt and Elizabeth McRae shall be entitled to share among them and it is my
will that the residue of my estate be equally divided among these persons named
above except Polly Capel, Caty Bagt and Eilbert McRae are severally to draw one
third of a share.
Christopher McRae died April 1837 and his will was proven
in Anson Co., NC.
Joseph Pickett was made guardian of Elizabeth McRae and was attempting to
recover Elizabeth McRae’s share of the inheritance.
#70 David D. Turner vs Martha C. Turner
David D. Turner of Marengo
County states that in the year of 1826 in
Darlington District
,
SC
he was lawfully married to Martha Caroline Jackson, now Martha Turner.
In the year 1836 Martha Caroline moved to the state of
Alabama
and that ever since that time your orator has been a resident of said state.
In consummating said marriage he was on his part most tender affections
and cherished the most certain hope of deriving from the greatest happiness and
contentment and that for a brief period these anticipations were in some degree
realized, but time soon proved that those happy expectations were vain,
visionary and delusive. That instead of a calm and peaceful enjoyment of a happy
union, he had formed himself to a life of misery and wretched disappointment
with a woman callous of every family care and a stranger to every feeling of
virtue, chastity as common prudence. Your
orator further showeth that though always
a poor man well provided for her and done every thing in his power for her
happiness, the said Martha has always treated your orator with coldness and
indifference; that about the year 1836 the habit of drinking ardent spirits in
which the said Martha had long secretly indulged began to develop itself in a
most frightful and disgusting manner, frequently in stupid and beastly
drunkenness, sometimes beating her servants and children in a most brutal and
shocking manner, using the most profane and vulgar language in your Orator’s
family and in the presence of his guest, refusing to allow your Orator the
common privileges of his own house, and abusing and insulting him on every
occasion with the most unbecoming and indecent language.
On
9 March 1843
he left his place of residence in
Linden
with his two daughters who were then approaching womanhood with the view of
finding a better more peaceful place to live. My wife totally gave herself up to
the most vulgar propensities and became a public prostitute. And in the year
1843 the said Martha formed an adulterous relationship with John Pheland and
lived in open adultery with him and on
20 March 1843
she eloped from this state to
Mississippi
with Pheland and your Orator has not seen her since.
The divorce was granted in Jun 1846.
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