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- Wilson County, TN Chancery Court Records
5305 - 1848 April 12 - (I.A.B.) Joseph INGRAM, William INGRAM, Maria FELLOWS formerly Maria INGRAM, Isaac S. CONNER and his wife Elizabeth formerly Elizabeth INGRAM, Green W. SHERRY and his wife Delilah formerly Delilah INGRAM, Jonathan L. SKELTON and his wife Polly formerly Polly INGRAM, Saml. INGRAM, James INGRAM and his wife Minerva, and Shederack INGRAM the children and heirs of Polly INGRAM all citizens of Washington Co, Ark. against Alfred MCCLAIN, Joseph SMITH, Dr. J.M. SMITH and Henry SMITH citizens of Wilson Co., TN. Orators are the children and heirs of Sheddrack INGRAM and his wife Polly INGRAM and as such are entitled to 1/2 interest in negroes.... Their father and mother are still living. Their grandfather Saml. DELOACH of Johnston Co., N.C. by his last Will and Testament dated 29 Oct. 1805 bequeathed to his dau. Tracey SPICER during her natural life two negro slaves named Daniel and Hasty and on the death of Tracy and her husband William SPICER shall be vested in the children of said Polly INGRAM, his dau., and son, Jessee DELOACH. They have a copy of the will in Ark. Tracy and her husband received the slaves in N.C., but sometime after her father's death, they moved to Wilson Co., TN bringing with them the two slaves and their increase. Tracy and her husband are still living in Wilson County, but are now very old being something over 70 years of age.... The said girl Hasty has as your Orators are informed, twenty one children, a portion of whom are now in the possession of the defdts. the others have been carried away to other states perhaps.... Henry SMITH has girl Hasty and the following named children of said Hasty, to wit: Jacob, Jane, Paralee, Huston, Leionidus, Hannah, Harriet, John and Tabby - Henry got said Hasty and several of her children from his father, who purchased Hasty and some of the others at the sale. Several children of Hasty have been sold ... one by the name of Charles.... Dr. J.M. SMITH has one of Hasty's children named Lewis, but how he got him cannot state.... Joseph SMITH has in his possession a girl named Emeline a dau. of Hasty and the defdt. Alfred MCCLAIN has a woman by the name of Judy, also a dau. of Hasty and two of said Judy's children, whose names are not known.... Jesse DELOACH, with a family of several children, who have an interest of 1/2 in the said slaves live in the state of Miss ... do not know the names of the children of Jesse. - Bondsmen for Defdts.: James INGRAM, Jorden STOKES, and Robert L. CARUTHERS.
15 Apr. 1848: Statement of William SPICER and Lucretia SPICER relative to Hasty and Daniel two negroes willed by Saml. DELOCH do make the following statement. Said negroes was willed as they have always understood for the support of sd. Lucretisha in her lifetime and at the death of sd. L. and William the said negroes was to be divided between Jessee DELOCH'S heirs and Polly INGRAM'S heirs. The possession of said negros remained with us about 15 years during which time Haster had 3 children named Charles Toney and Hardy. William SPICER swapped Hester and two children (Toney and Charles) in about 1823 to George SMITH for a boy named Isaac ... Henry SMITH'S store.... Hardy was morgaged to William MCGREGOR ... he was drowned. He sold Daniel to William MOORE who is now dead. Daniel has also been drowned....
1848 Sept. 28 - Answer of Henry F. SMITH says that the will names negroes Daniel and Hester ... cannot therefore admit that the said Samuel DELOACH devised the negro woman Hasty to the children of Polly and Jessie.... He has been informed that a great many years before the death of Samuel DELOACH the said Tracey intermarried with her husband and that upon the marriage DELOACH gave her a small girl, then not more than 7 or 8 years old, that Tracy raised the girl to womanhood, when she gave birth some one or more children older than (blank) Hasty and Daniel long before the making of the will.... Spicer sold the mother of Hasty and Daniel with the knowledge of Samuel DELOACH.... SMITH explains how he became the owner. Sometime in the years 1819 or 1820 his father exchanged a negro boy and perhaps one or two small children for the woman Hasty with William SPICER.... Sometime in the year 1833 the father of complainant departed this life. In the division of the estate of his father the negro woman Hasty and three of her children were alloted to Martha SMITH the sister of respondent. That sometime thereafter Martha intermarried with one Ross WEBB who thereby became the owner of Hasty and her three children and that some time in the year 1837 respondant bought Hasty and three children to wit Jane, Paralee, and Houston ... and he bought with them a negro man the husband of Hasty.... Hasty has had some 18 or 20 children but cannot tell the precise number. Respondant has the woman Hasty and nine of her children to wit, Jane, Paralee, Houston, Leonadas, Hannah, Harriet, John, Tabby, and Jacob. Five she has had since he bought her and the last Jacob he bought from his brother Samuel SMITH the boy was then some 12 years old....
Samuel DeLoach, by his last Will and Testament dated 29 Oct. 1805, bequeathed to his daughter Lucretia "Tracy" DeLoach Spicer and her husband William Spicer two of his slaves named Daniel and his sister named Hasty. At about the same time, he loaned his slave named Jenny, who was the mother of Daniel and Hasty, to his daughter Tracy Spicer. Descendants of the DeLoach and Ingram families became inbroiled in a series of law suits concerning the slaves Jenny, Daniel and Hasty and their children. Hasty and Daniel had been sold to the Bryant and later to the Smith families in Wilson County, Tennessee.
Jordann Sadler , who is a descendant of Hasty, has done extensive research of her family. The documents that she has found are attached to her ancestor Hasty DeLoach (Hasty Smith).
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Abt 1751 - Abt 1805 (~ 54 years)
