Findley v. Patterson's

In the year 1838, James W. Findley and Mary his wife, (a daughter of John Patterson) and Noah Wilcox and George W. Wilcox, infant children of Nancy Hughes Patterson, who was also a daughter of the said John, filed a bill in chancery against his representatives, for sundry slaves claimed under a deed of gift made in 1810, to the said Mary and Nancy, then infants, by their grandfather, Blackmore Hughes, of a female slave named Sarah, who, as well as the said donees, remained for many years in the family and under the control of the said John, and whose children, as well as herself (the said…