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> In 1869, Jack Scott, a former slave of Joseph Glasgow, filed a suit in
> Rockbridge County Chancery Court against Nancy Glasgow's administratrix
> (her daughter, Elizabeth Johns).  When Joseph Glasgow died, he stipulated
> in his 1856 will that his slaves were to be emancipated on the death of
> both his wife and daughter, and that $3000 was to be put aside for them to
> be distributed upon emancipation.
>
> The war intervened and freed Glasgow's slaves BEFORE the "requisite"
> deaths.  Scott and his fellow freedmen sued for the money anyway.
> Interestingly, they won in Lexington but lost in the Supreme Court of
> Appeals.
>
> In any event, the names of those freed former Glasgow slaves living -- and
> suing -- in Rockbridge County:
>
> "Jack Scott, Preston Scott (decd), Martha SCott, Scott Redcross, Henry
> Redcross (decd), Jacob Steele, Smauel Cosby, Nancy Norris, Judy Norris
> [now Judy Sparrow], George Norris, Charles Norris, Louisa Norris, Adeline
> Stevens [now Adeline Smith], Alfred Stevens, Washington Shields [sometimes
> called Redcross], Wyatt King, Charlotte King, Susan King, Ben King,
> Madaline or Magdalen King, Stepnah King, Paulina Stevens, John Scott, John
> Sparrow, Samuel Smith, Richard Anderson and Louisa his wife, Robert
> Fitzgerald and Delphin his wife, Rosala (Rosalie?) Johns, Sidney Shields,
> Brown Shields [sometimes called Redcross], William Shields [sometimes
> called Redcross], adults; and Ellen Taylor, John Henry Norris, Joseph
> Norris, James Sparrow, Mary Sparrow, Mary F. Smith, David S. Smith, Rosala
> Fitzgerald, _______ Smith and _______ Smith, children of Samuel and
> Adeline Smith, Alexander Anderson, Rachel Anderson, Richard Anderson,
> Henry Anderson, Milly Anderson, Parmelia Fitzgerald, R.E. Lee Fitzgerald
> [!], Mary Ftizgerald, Emma Fitzgerald, Ida Johnson, and James Reid,
> infants who sue by Jack Scott, their next friend.
>
> The case is "Scott, Jack etc v. Glasgow, Nancy's admx," (1873-008).
> Unfortunately, these records are currently closed to the public for
> processing.

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