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All of this is not lost on those he enslaved as they were named defendants along with his niece to the suit. In their answer, they fight back stating that \"their liberty should be place on a higher footing than the legacy of his niece which is so far a special legacy.\" They ask the court to release them from their servitude. Instead, they were hired out and his estate earned $185.00 However, the estate remained $600.00 in debt. SEE ALSO: 1834-007.\n"," Benjamin Blackford and his son ran a manufacturing and casting iron business responsible for the operation of the Isabella Furnace and Speedwell Forge in Page County as well as the Caroline Furnance in Shenandoah County. Through deeds of trust, Nicholas Yager and Abraham Kendrick were given full power and authority to supervise and control the operations of said furnaces and forge, however, they were also responsible for the company's debts. 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Henry Long was said to be old, infirm and a drinker but others surmise that he had fallen under the influence of his step daughter. Defendant lived in Shenandoah and Rockingham counties. SEE ALSO: 1837-002, 1833-007, and 1839-008.\n","In his will, filed in Page County in 1831, Raphael Conn emancipated all seventeen of the people he enslaved. The court ruled that the enslaved people may be hired out or sold to pay for his estate's debts while the legacy of his niece, Mary J. Conn, is protected-thus increasing his debts.  All of this is not lost on those he enslaved as they were named defendants along with his niece to the suit. In their answer, they fight back stating that \"their liberty should be place on a higher footing than the legacy of his niece which is so far a special legacy.\" They ask the court to release them from their servitude. Instead, they were hired out and his estate earned $185.00 However, the estate remained $600.00 in debt. SEE ALSO: 1834-007.\n"," Benjamin Blackford and his son ran a manufacturing and casting iron business responsible for the operation of the Isabella Furnace and Speedwell Forge in Page County as well as the Caroline Furnance in Shenandoah County. Through deeds of trust, Nicholas Yager and Abraham Kendrick were given full power and authority to supervise and control the operations of said furnaces and forge, however, they were also responsible for the company's debts. The suit also involved the city of Richmond hiring out enslaved workers to the business of Benjamin Blackford and Son. SEE ALSO: 1843-005. \n","Isaac Bundy was a free man of color, who died childless and his estate was to be divided amongst his brothers and sisters.  His heirs argued Frances Bundy, Isaac Bundy's common-law wife, was not legally his wife and therefore had no right to a dower tract of land from Isaac's estate. However, the court recognized Frances as Isaac's wife for legal purposes. Frances, in turn, disputed whether the heirs coming forward were in fact legimitate heirs to Isaac's estate. \n","The suit is concered with church property in the town of Lurary; the property also contained a meeting house and schoolhouse. Thomas M. Almond was a member of Mount Caramel Baptist Church while  Ambrose Booton was a trustee of the Hawksbill Baptist Church.  The Hawksbill Baptist Church became the Mount Caramel Baptist Church-known as the Old School Baptists. Almond bought the church property and proceeds were shared by the Old School Baptist Church-one half, the New School Baptist Church-3/10 and the Methodist Episcopal-1/5.\n","Emanuel Grove claimed there was a verbal agreement to go to Greene County and bid together with the Peter B. Borst and David McKay for the first 14 miles of the Rockingham Turnpike Road from Stanardsville to Harrisonburg. Grove said that Borst and McKay refused to consider Grove as one of the said firm and denied him the  profits of said contracts. 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All of this is not lost on those he enslaved as they were named defendants along with his niece to the suit. In their answer, they fight back stating that \"their liberty should be place on a higher footing than the legacy of his niece which is so far a special legacy.\" They ask the court to release them from their servitude. Instead, they were hired out and his estate earned $185.00 However, the estate remained $600.00 in debt. SEE ALSO: 1834-007.\n"," Benjamin Blackford and his son ran a manufacturing and casting iron business responsible for the operation of the Isabella Furnace and Speedwell Forge in Page County as well as the Caroline Furnance in Shenandoah County. Through deeds of trust, Nicholas Yager and Abraham Kendrick were given full power and authority to supervise and control the operations of said furnaces and forge, however, they were also responsible for the company's debts. 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