Denson v. Thompson

On the 28th of September, 1852, Elizabeth Thompson, wife of John N. Thompson, by her next friend Edgar A. M. Gray, filed a bill in the Ashley Circuit Court against her husband, and Esther Thompson, widow of her deceased son, Robert A. Thompson, for the recovery of two slaves and their hires, etc.

The bill alleges that on the 18th of February, 1807, the complainant, Elizabeth, intermarried with the defendant John N. Thompson, in Robertson county, North Carolina. That after-wards, in the year 1810, her father Thomas Sewell, then living there, by deed gave to complainant three slaves, Joe, Lucy…