In Chancery of New Jersey Between Jesse H. Bowen, Daniel Frazier & Federal Champion, Complainants, and John Flanagin, Defendant, Bill for Relief of Injunction
註釋 Petition for debt relief presented to Governor Peter Dumont Vroom in Chancery. It presents a detailed picture of the problems faced by debtors in the days before passage of voluntary bankruptcy legislation. Federal Champion owned a business that sold coal and lumber in Gravelly Run. In 1833 he became indebted to Philadelphians David Vickers, John Flanagin, and others for "divers large sums of money." Champion bonded himself to Jesse H. Bowen and Daniel Frazier for surety, but this failed to help. The petition sets forth Champion's valiant efforts to pay his creditors; explains his "embarrassed circumstances," rendering him "altogether unable to pay his creditors in full;" describes his attempts to compromise all his claims, and Flanagin's stubborn refusal to accept a compromise, thus dashing Champion's hopes for a global solution to his problems. Champion, Bowen and Frazier ask Governor Vroom to prevent Flanagin from seeking their arrest, and request a court hearing to grant relief. 