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State v. White 2 N.C. 13, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (March 01, 1792) 1792 INDICTMENT for trespass, in taking and carrying away two negroes from and out of the possession and ownership of William Baily. After the facts were proven on the part of the state, Mr. Avery, on the part of the defendants, offered to produce several witnesses, to prove that the property of these negroes was in one Samuel Scott, of South-Carolina,... Most Relevant Cases  
Turner v. Turner 1 Va. 139, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1792) 1792 Under the Act of 1758, entitled, an Act for preventing fraudulent gifts of slaves, a gift of a slave, not made by deed, or will, though possession was delivered, is void. The Act passed in 1787, entitled, an Act to explain and amend the Act for preventing fraudulent gifts of slaves, is prospective in its operation, and... Most Relevant Cases  
Turner v. Turner's Ex'x 4 Call 234, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1792) 1792 This was an action of detinue for slaves brought in the county court. Upon the trial of the cause, the defendant filed a bill of exceptions, which states, that the plaintiff offered, in evidence to the jury, the depositions of sundry witnesses, to prove a parol gift of the slaves demanded; and that the defendant excepted to the testimony, alleging... Most Relevant Cases  
Clayborn v. Hill 1 Va. 177, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1793) 1793 The deed of mortgage, dated the 1st of February, 1783, from Herbert Clayborn to Augustine Clayborn, in the decree mentioned, if made for a valuable and bona fide consideration, was not void by reason of Herbert Clayborn, the mortgagor, retaining possession of the slaves and other estate thereby mortgaged to the said Augustine, as the said... Most Relevant Cases  
Coleman v. Dick 1 Va. 233, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1793) 1793 Since the year 1705, no American Indian could be held as a slave, but foreign Indians, coming within the description of the Act of 1705, c. 49, might be made slaves. If, in an action for freedom, the jury find that the plaintiff is decended from an Indian who was brought into this State generally, without saying from whence, it is sufficient for... Most Relevant Cases  
De Bardeleben v. Beekman 1 Des. 346, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (June 01, 1793) 1793 This was a bill filed by complainant to discover if the defendant Barnard Beekman had not made certain bills of sale of a number of slaves to his nephew Samuel Beekman, in order to cover them from his creditors, and particularly from the complainant, who had recovered judgment against Barnard Beekman, on bonds in which he was security. The... Most Relevant Cases  
Hillyard v. Nichols 1 Root 493, Superior Court of Connecticut (January 01, 1793) 1793 Depositions taken within twenty miles of the defendant's known attorneys without citing either, not admitted. An action upon a statute to recover a penalty, is within the law enabling the court to return the jury to a second and third consideration. Action upon the statute, to recover the penalty of £200 for exporting two negro children out of... Most Relevant Cases  
Keene v. Lee 1 Va. 239, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1793) 1793 Devise of land to A, upon condition, that as soon as he arrives at the age of twenty-one, he joins the executors in a conveyance of certain slaves, to the persons who may purchase them from the executors. Upon A's arrival at full age, he made a declaration in writing, which was recorded; by which he agreed to perform the conditions of the will. He... Most Relevant Cases  
Nance v. Woodward Wythe 180, High Court of Chancery of Virginia (March 01, 1793) 1793 That in the bequest by Timothy Vaughan to his wife of all his personal estate, and negros, and the use of the plantation whereon he lived, during her life, the words, during her life. relating necessarily to the words, i give to my wife, ought to be connected, and be understood to have been repeated, with them in every... Most Relevant Cases  
Porter v. Butler 3 H. & McH. 168, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1793) 1793 APPEAL from Frederick county court. The record states that Butler, the appellee, petitioned for his freedom, and at November term, 1791, the county court adjudged him free. The case was thus: James Brook, of Frederick county, in June, 1781, (being then under age,) hired Butler, the petitioner, for one year, to one Patrick Rogers, who then resided... Most Relevant Cases  
Rawlings v. Boston 3 H. & McH. 139, General Court of Maryland (May 01, 1793) 1793 THIS was an appeal from Anne Arundel county court, from a judgment rendered at November term, 1790, in favour of Boston, the appellee, on his petition for freedom. The petitioner claimed his freedom as being a descendant from a yellow woman, being a Portuguese, named Catharine Boston. The record transmitted on the appeal contained sundry... Most Relevant Cases  
Smith v. Horsey 2 Del.Cas. 9, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (November 01, 1793) 1793 Replevin. Plea, property. Evidence that plaintiff's father in a merry humor and drunk gave the Negro in question to plaintiff, when a little girl, because she and another danced with him, and to the other he gave a feather bed which she never claimed or got, and at the same time put the negro boy's hand into the plaintiff's hand. This, it was said,... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Bender 1 Del.Cas. 478, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1793) 1793 The defendant, a white man, was indicted for an assault and battery committed on Phillis Miller, a negro woman, who was now offered as a witness for the State. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Bender 1 Del.Cas. 337, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1793) 1793 The defendant, a white man, was indicted for an assault and battery committed on Phillis Miller, a negro woman. Phillis Miller was offered as a witness for the State, to whom Fisher, counsel for defendant, objected on the ground of the Act of Assembly [2 Del.Laws 887], February 3, 1787, and the decision of the Supreme Court in Collins v. Hall,... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Bender 1 Del.Cas. 660, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1793) 1793 Indictment for assault and battery upon Phillis, a free Negro. The first witness produced on the part of the State was the prosecutrix, to prove the assault and battery on herself. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Bender 1 Del.Cas. 16, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1793) 1793 Indictment for an assault on a negro woman. Non culpa and issues. At the trial the Negro (who was agreed to have been freed in Maryland 8 years ago) was offered as a witness to prove the assault, there being nobody else to prove the facts for the State. Objected that she was within the meaning of the Act of Assembly, February 3, 1787; that it was... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Jim 1 Del.Cas. 335, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1793) 1793 Indictment for stealing nineteen and one half bushels of corn. Jacob Miller, a free Negro, was offered as a witness for the State, to whose competency Clark and Vandyke, counsel for the defendants, objected upon two grounds: first, that an infamous judgment had been passed upon him; second, that he was an accomplice. In order to support the first... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Pitney 1 N.J.L. 165, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1793) 1793 A negro, legally manumitted, is entitled to his freedom, though the security required by the act of assembly is not given. On habeas corpus for negro Prince. It appeared that Jasper Smith, in 1769, by his will manumitted all his slaves, of whom the mother of Prince was one. The administrators with the will annexed, John Bills and his wife, who had... Most Relevant Cases  
Stone v. Ebberly 1 Bay 317, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (May 01, 1793) 1793 TROVER for a negro boy. This case came before the Court on a special verdict found in the year 1790, as follows: That Matthew Guerin, (whose daughter, Thomas Stone, the present plaintiff, married) by deed of gift, gave sundry negroes to his three grand children, Thomas Stone, the younger, and Elizabeth and Mary Stone, all minors and under... Most Relevant Cases  
Timrod v. Shoolbred 1 Bay 324, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (September 01, 1793) 1793 The Court, (present, BURKE, J. and BAY, J.) In every contract, all imaginable fairness ought to be observed, especially in the sale of negroes, which are a valuable species of property in this country. It has been decided often in our Courts, that selling for a sound price, raises in law, a warranty of the soundness of the thing sold; and if it... Most Relevant Cases  
Applebury v. Anthony's Ex'rs 1 Va. 287, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1794) 1794 This being an application to a Court of Equity, to restore a lost deed to its legal validity, it becomes important to consider whether the deed, if restored, has any legal force. It is the deed of the grandfather, for slaves, to which he had, at the time, no title. For upon the state of the case, the title appears to have been in Applebury, the... Most Relevant Cases  
Com. of Pennsylvania v. Chambre 4 U.S. 143, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (September 01, 1794) 1794 AHABEAS corpus was issued to the jailor of Philadelphia, to bring before Judge SHIPPEN, the bodies of Magdalen and Zare, two negro women, committed as the absconding slaves of Mrs. Chambrè. The Judge, after hearing the case opened, adjourned it, for argument and decision, to the Supreme Court, on the 13th of September 1794, when the following facts... Most Relevant Cases  
De Kerlegand v. Hector 3 H. & McH. 185, General Court of Maryland (May 01, 1794) 1794 THIS was an appeal from the county court of Frederick. The appellee, on his petition to the said court, obtained judgment of freedom, in November, 1793. The record states, that the petitioner was a slave to the appellant in the island of Saint Domingo, and as such was brought into the United States, by the appellant, after the disturbances in... Most Relevant Cases  
Elligood v. Smith 1 Del.Cas. 35, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (April 01, 1794) 1794 Amicable action in trover for Negro Isaac. Only conversion by testator proved, and report of £100 damages for plaintiff. Rule to show cause and exceptions filed. Question. Whether trover is maintainable against executors for a conversion in the lifetime of testator. Most Relevant Cases  
Elwick's Ex'rs v. Rush 2 N.C. 28, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (March 01, 1794) 1794 DETINUE. Plaintiff by one Tally, proved that Barton, who was a legatee, went with him to Rush, and informed Rush that the negroes mentioned in the declaration were of the estate of Elwick; that he, Barton, was a legatee, or heir of that estate; and that Col. Taylor was Executor, and demanded the negroes.--Et per Judge Williams, a demand is... Most Relevant Cases  
Haig v. Haig's Ex'rs 1 Des. 348, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (March 01, 1794) 1794 The bill was brought to establish a deed of gift of sundry negroes made by the complainant's father, some years after her marriage, directly to her, without the intervention of trustees. The deed declared that the slaves should be to the only use and behoof of my said daughter, her heirs and assigns. It was contended for the... Most Relevant Cases  
Isaac v. Ferguson 1 Del.Cas. 49, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (November 01, 1794) 1794 Petition for freedom. Proved for the Negro that his master had said he should make no defense as he believed the Negro free; as he had hired him a month into the state before he came in himself. No argument. Most Relevant Cases  
Lee v. Cooke 1 Va. 306, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1794) 1794 An action of covenant by the vendee of a slave, upon a covenant of warranty binding the vendor and his heirs, (not naming the executors) will be against the executors;--and the declaration need not state, nor is it incumbent on the plaintiff to prove, notice to the vendor, of the pendency of the suit, to recover the negro. If the recovery was... Most Relevant Cases  
Lyons v. Rogers 1 Brev. 5, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (October 01, 1794) 1794 Where a slave was left in pledge, by A. with B., redeemable upon certain conditions, and A. sold the slave absolutely to C., who obtained possession, and refused to deliver the slave to B.: held, that B. could not maintain trover against C., but that his remedy was by special action on the case. Most Relevant Cases  
Negro v. Richards 1 Del.Cas. 31, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (November 28, 1794) 1794 Summons freedom. Most Relevant Cases  
Negro v. Richards 1 Del.Cas. 31 (November 28, 1794) 1794 Covenant will not lie in this state, on a contract to be performed in Pennsylvania, with a scrawl and the word seal in the locus sigilli, tho', by the law of that state, this constitutes a... Most Relevant Trial Court Orders  
Respublica v. Gaoler of Philadelphia County 1 Yeates 368, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (January 01, 1794) 1794 Free negroes or mulattoes can be bound here as servants until 21 years of age, but no longer; but those who have been bound in other states and brought into this state, may be compellable to serve until 28 years old, according to the terms of their indentures. TO a habeas corpus, under the act of 1785, returnable forthwith, to bring before the... Most Relevant Cases  
Shorter v. Rozier 3 H. & McH. 238, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1794) 1794 THIS was a petition for freedom, whereby the petitioner claimed his freedom as being lineally descended in the female line from Elizabeth Shorter, a free white woman. The defendant pleaded, that the said Elizabeth Shorter was not a free white woman. Also, that the petitioner was not lineally descended in the female line from a free white woman; and... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Baynard 1 Del.Cas. 662, Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery of Delaware (April 01, 1794) 1794 The defendant was indicted for the murder of Negro Richard, the slave of Nathan Herrington. In the trial of the cause, the first witness who was sworn on the part of the State was relating an interview he had with the deceased Negro on the same evening of his death, and was proceeding to give in evidence some conversation which passed between them... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Bender 2 Del.Cas. 9, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1794) 1794 Indictment for an assault on a negro woman. Non culpa and issue. At the trial the Negro (who it was agreed had been freed in Maryland eight years ago) was offered as a witness to prove the assault, there being nobody else to prove the facts for the State. Objected to her admission that she was within the Act of Assembly, February 1787, 2 Del.Laws... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Farson 1 Del.Cas. 359, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (May 01, 1794) 1794 Indictment for an assault and battery upon Nathan Keach, a white man. David Hut, a negro man, was offered as a witness for the defendant. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Farson 1 Del.Cas. 23, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (April 01, 1794) 1794 Indictment, assault and battery. Case: The person assaulted was a white man, no other white person present at the time of the assault, but many Negroes. Prosecutor being sworn, defendant's counsel offered a free Negro to be sworn under the Act, 1787, by way of redress, or exculpation and urged that this was not giving evidence against a white... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Frees 1 N.J.L. 259, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1794) 1794 1. General declarations of an intention to set negroes free, unaccompanied with some special act or formality, are not a sufficient ground for the court to declare them free. 2. The court will not compel the prosecutors of writs of habeas corpus whose object is to have persons detained as slaves, liberated, to pay costs in case their attempt is... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. George 1 N.C. 62, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (March 01, 1794) 1794 If there be anything in the objection, the Court will attend to it at the trial. The slave was sworn, and the bill was found. The prisoner being arriaganed, pleaded not guilty; but made his escape before the day assigned for his trial. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Shreve 1 N.J.L. 230, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (September 01, 1794) 1794 A parent's authority to dispose of the services of his child ceases when the child arrives at the age of twenty-one. Habeas corpus to bring up the body of negro James. It appeared that the mother of the negro had bound or sold the boy until he should be twenty-seven years of age, and that the negro was more than twenty-one years old. The parental... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Simmons 1 Brev. 6, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (October 01, 1794) 1794 A white man may be indicted and convicted as an accessary to a murder committed by a slave. vide State v. Sims, 2 Bailey, 29. State v. Crank, Ib. 66. An indictment against an accessary to a murder, committed by a slave, need not recite the record of conviction of the slave by a court of magistrates and freeholders. Ib. Most Relevant Cases  
Thomas v. Pile 3 H. & McH. 241, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1794) 1794 IN this case, the petitioner claimed his freedom as being descended in the female line, from a free white woman, whose name was Elizabeth Thomas. The following bill of exceptions was taken at the trial, to wit: In the trial of this cause, the petitioner, by his counsel, offered in evidence the declarations of a certain Mrs. Smith, to prove the... Most Relevant Cases  
Walter v. Evans 1 Del.Cas. 668, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (May 01, 1794) 1794 This was an action on the case for money had and received by defendant's testator, William Robinson, to the use of Leah Gray, the present wife of Thomas Walter. The plaintiff produced Seth Hudson as a witness, who proved his having given his bond for £50 to William Robinson for a negro woman he purchased of said Robinson, who belonged to Leah Gray.... Most Relevant Cases  
Ward v. Wilson 1 Des. 401, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (September 01, 1794) 1794 The bill states that after the death of John Wilson, the complainant administered on the estate, and possessed himself of the personal estate of the said intestate, except certain slaves named in a deed of settlement, a copy of which is filed with bill; which said slaves the complainant understood were secured by said deed to the sole use of... Most Relevant Cases  
White v. Stafford 1 Del.Cas. 673, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (May 01, 1794) 1794 The plaintiff had brought this action for the recovery of £ 100, the penalty which is incurred by an Act of Assembly of this state in cases where Negroes are exported from this state to Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas or Georgia. Most Relevant Cases  
Woodbery v. Collins' Ex'r 1 Des. 424, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (September 01, 1794) 1794 The point for the determination of the court at present is on a clause in the will of J. Collins, in the following words: I give and bequeath to Mrs. M. Hallone the following negroes, viz. Dolly and child, Nanny, &c. during the life of the said Mrs. Hallone, and that of her husband H. Hallone, and should the said Mrs. H. have heirs of her... Most Relevant Cases  
---- Ex'rs v. Oldham 2 N.C. 165, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1795) 1795 DETINUE for negroes in the plaintiff's own possession. The plaintiff proved the wench from whom these negroes were descended, to have been the property of the testator; that she continued to be his property, and was in his possession at the time of his death; that after his death she came into the possession of the plaintiff as his executrix; that... Most Relevant Cases  
v. Arrington 2 N.C. 164, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1795) 1795 THE bill stated in substance, that the negro in question was given by old Arrington, now deceased, to his daughter, one of the defendants, now married to another of the defendants; that she and her husband for a valuable consideration paid to them by the complainants, had by deed poll, assigned and transferred their interest in the said negro to... Most Relevant Cases  
Anonymous 2 N.C. 226, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (September 01, 1795) 1795 ACCOUNT. The jury had found a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court, upon the question whether this action will lie against the executor of one who as executor took the goods of the testator into his possession, and hired out the negroes, &c. This suit was commenced by one of several legatees. In the argument of this case,... Most Relevant Cases  
Brock v. Philips 2 Va. 68, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1795) 1795 It is unnecessary to decide the first point made in this cause, since the court feel no difficulty in affirming the decree upon the second. There can be no doubt, but that the executor has exceeded his power in selling the reversion of the land in question. The case of a person purchasing slaves, or a specific legacy from an executor whilst he has... Most Relevant Cases  
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