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Burton v. Hearn 1 Del.Cas. 78, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (November 01, 1795) 1795 Assumpsit. Trial. Count, money had and received. Pleas, non assumpsit and [Statute of] Limitations. Defendant took plaintiff's Negro to Carolina to sell for him; he sold him at a disadvantage; but offered plaintiff £55, which he refused and brought this suit. Most Relevant Cases  
Ceasar v. Kirshaw 2 Del.Cas. 228, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (January 01, 1795) 1795 Court overruled the objection and directed the defendant, Kirshaw, to give security in four hundred dollars to keep the peace towards Negro Ceasar, after said Negro was examined. Most Relevant Cases  
Croskeys v. O'Driscoll 1 Bay 481, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (May 01, 1795) 1795 SLANDER. The words were, that the defendant said the plaintiff harboured his negro, and he would prove it. The jury gave three pounds damages, subject to the opinion of the Court, whether these words were actionable, or not? The Court, after hearing counsel, were unanimously of opinion, that these words were not, in themselves, actionable; and as... Most Relevant Cases  
Dott v. Cunnington 1 Bay 453, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (January 01, 1795) 1795 THIS case came before the Court on a special verdict, which stated, that Sarah Baker, by deed poll, gave her daughter, Sarah Dott, (wife of David Dott) sundry negroes, &c. distinct from her husband during her life, and at her death, to the heirs of her body. The verdict further states, that Mrs. Dott then had issue the plaintiff, her eldest son,... Most Relevant Cases  
Dott v. Willson 1 Bay 457, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (January 01, 1795) 1795 THIS was another case brought forward by the same parties as in the foregoing case; but the special verdict was founded on Mrs. Baker's will, made several years after the deed of gift. This verdict found, that Sarah Baker, by her will, bequeathed one-fourth part of her estate, (consisting of negroes, houshold furniture, &c.) to her daughter, Sarah... Most Relevant Cases  
Evans v. Evans 1 Del.Cas. 76, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (November 01, 1795) 1795 Replevin for a Negro. Non cepit and property pleaded. Plaintiff proved the Negro in possession of defendant though not at the place laid in the declaration. He showed his father's will, wherein the Negro was bequeathed to defendant and two other brothers jointly, one of whom is dead, the other absent but under age. Plaintiff showed also that he had... Most Relevant Cases  
Garner v. Garner's Ex'rs 1 Des. 437, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (March 01, 1795) 1795 The complainant being about to marry Melcher Garner, and being possessed of twelve negro slaves, a marriage settlement was executed by said Melcher Garner, on the 14th July, 1768, by which he agreed, in consideration of the intended marriage, that the trustees should hold the said slaves, in trust; that Melcher Garner should receive the rents and... Most Relevant Cases  
Gwin v. Hicks' Ex'r 1 Bay 503, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (December 30, 1795) 1795 CASE for two years rent of a plantation, 240 dollars. The case was this-The fee of the land was in Mrs. Hicks, at the time of her first marriage, and Mr. Hicks planted it with his negroes, and died in the latter end of May, or beginning of June, after the crop was considerably advanced. In the winter following she married her second husband, Mr.... Most Relevant Cases  
Hylliard v. Nickols 2 Root 176, Superior Court of Connecticut (January 01, 1795) 1795 A new trial granted for certain reasons in favor of the plaintiff in an action for the £100 penalty, brought on the statute against exporting negroes out of this state. Petition for a new trial, in an action brought by said Hylliard against said Nickols upon the statute entitled an act to prevent the slave trade-alleging that said Nickols at a... Most Relevant Cases  
McTeer's Adm'r v. Sheppard 1 Bay 461, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (April 01, 1795) 1795 TROVER for two negroes. The bill of sale from the defendant to MTeer, was admitted. Holmes then stated to the Court, that these negroes had been conveyed to MTeer, in his life time, to cover them from a suit in Chancery, which Col. MPherson was about to institute against him. That no consideration was paid, and it was in nature of a trust, in... Most Relevant Cases  
Respublica v. Mulatto Bob 4 U.S. 145, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (September 01, 1795) 1795 INDICTMENT for murder of the first degree. The charge of the COURT was delivered by the Chief Justice, who stated the facts and the law to the following effect: The evidence in this case may be comprised in a few words. It appears, that a wedding being fixed for Easter Monday, a considerable number of negroes assembled; and, about 10 o'clock at... Most Relevant Cases  
Respublica v. Richards 2 U.S. 224, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (April 01, 1795) 1795 This was an indictment, on the 7th section of the act supplemental to the act for the gradual abolition of slavery (2 Vol. Dall. Edit. p. 589) which is expressed in the following words: If any person or persons shall, from and after the passing of this act, by force or violence, take and carry, or cause to be taken and carried, or shall by... Most Relevant Cases  
Robertson v. Stuart 2 N.C. 159, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1795) 1795 THIS was an action brought for the recovery of a negro boy. It appeared upon evidence, that old William Stone was the owner of the boy, and that his son John Stone being about to move to South-Carolina, had gotten the boy into his possession; and that he sold him as his property to the defendant; and that the defendant had retained the possession... Most Relevant Cases  
Rouple v. McCarty 1 Bay 480, Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace of South (May 01, 1795) 1795 THIS was a special action on the case, for selling an unsound negro female slave. The evidence was extremely doubtful, whether the unsoundness stated, was the effect of disease before, or after the sale. The Court, (present, WATIES and BAY, Justices) therefore, took this opportunity of mentioning, that these kind of actions had become very frequent... Most Relevant Cases  
Stafford v. Richards 1 Del.Cas. 66, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (April 01, 1795) 1795 Slander. William Stafford employed A. B.'s Negro to steal his money, and that the Negro handed the money in a box to William Stafford, etc. Proof that defendant said the conjuror told him so. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Heddon 1 N.J.L. 328, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1795) 1795 1. One claiming to hold another as his slave, must prove a good title to him. 2. Mere possession and acquiescence on the part of the negro are no proof of title. It is not incumbent on the negro to prove himself absolutely a freeman; it is sufficient if he disproves the right of the person who claims him. A habeas corpus had in this case been... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. McDonald 1 N.J.L. 332, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1795) 1795 1. A promise was made that a negro should have her freedom at a certain period. The negro remained free during ten years from the time fixed, with the acquiescence of the person claiming her; this is sufficient to prove her entitled to her freedom. 2. The court are not restricted from hearing evidence under special circumstances which would not be... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Mount 1 N.J.L. 292, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1795) 1795 An absolute bill of sale of a negro was made by A to B. B, at the end of the instrument, covenants that if the said negro should serve him ten years without having children, he would at the expiration of that time offer her her freedom. Held, that the bill of sale was absolute, subject, however, to be defeated so far as affected the purchaser's... Most Relevant Cases  
Arnold v. Bell 2 N.C. 396, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (October 01, 1796) 1796 DETINUE for negroes, Tom, Jane and Anaky.--The plaintiff produced a bill of sale from his father, John Arnold, dated the 27th February, 1795, for Tom; and another bill of sale, dated the 25th December, 1794, for the two other negroes. The defendant proved a purchase of these negroes at the sale of a Sheriff, who sold them to satisfy an execution,... Most Relevant Cases  
Charles v. Cochran 2 Del.Cas. 51, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (May 01, 1796) 1796 Summons for freedom. Most Relevant Cases  
Elliot v. Richards 1 Del.Cas. 87, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (April 01, 1796) 1796 Narratio. Debt, £400, stating defendant, contrary to an Act [of] February 3, 1789 [2 Del.Laws 943], sold etc. four Negroes, naming them. Plea nil debet. Most Relevant Cases  
Ellmore v. Mills 2 N.C. 359, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (September 01, 1796) 1796 THE plaintiff offered to produce a registered copy of the deed, which he said disposed of the negroes in question and limited them to the plaintiff. The copy was certified by the clerk of a county court in Virginia, and the Governor had certified that he was the clerk of that court. This is well certified, though not in the mode prescribed by the... Most Relevant Cases  
Evans v. Kennedy 2 N.C. 422, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (October 01, 1796) 1796 THE plaintiff was a person of colour, who claimed his freedom, and was detained in slavery by the defendant. The plaintiff and defendant had agreed that an action should be instituted without process, and an issue made up to try the fact; and some doubt now arising in regard to the proper form of action, and of the issue to be made up, they... Most Relevant Cases  
Geer v. Huntington 2 Root 364, Superior Court of Connecticut (March 01, 1796) 1796 The declaration of the mistress to her servant, that he should be free at twenty-five years of ageadjudged to amount to a manumission at that time. Action for the service of a negro boy, who was born a slave, and was over twenty-five years of age. The plaintiff claimed him by a bill of sale from Mrs. Stanton, his mistress. The defendant... Most Relevant Cases  
Higgins v. Allen 3 H. & McH. 504, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1796) 1796 THIS was an appeal from Anne Arundel county court, from a judgment rendered for freedom, at September term, 1794. The record states that Allen claimed his freedom as being descended from a free woman, and the case appeared to be as follows: Hannah Allen was a white Scotch woman, great-grandmother of Nathaniel Allen, the petitioner, and she had, by... Most Relevant Cases  
Johnson v. Courts 3 H. & McH. 510, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1796) 1796 THIS was an appeal from Prince George's county court, from a judgment rendered at September term, 1795. It was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, brought against Johnson, the defendant, for entering the close of the plaintiff, treading down his grass with horses, &c. arresting, taking and carrying away six negroes, and also declared that... Most Relevant Cases  
Kingsbury v. Town of Tolland 2 Root 355, Superior Court of Connecticut (February 01, 1796) 1796 Executors are liable for expenses incurred in the lifetime of the testator for the support of manumitted slaves-and the heirs after. Writ of Error to reverse a judgment of a justice, in an action, Tolland against said Kingsbury, declaring, that said Ebenezer was sole executor of Ruth Kingsbury, late of Norwich, deceased-That said Ruth was mistress... Most Relevant Cases  
Knight v. Thomas 2 N.C. 289, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1796) 1796 TROVER. Thomas, as Sheriff, had sold the negroes in controversy as the property of one Pass, to satisfy an execution of one of Pass's creditors. It turned out upon evidence, that Pass had conveyed those negroes by parol before witnesses, to the wife of the plaintiff, sometime before this creditor obtained judgment, and before the debt was... Most Relevant Cases  
Lewis v. Hynes 2 N.C. 278, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1796) 1796 OLD Lewis devised negroes to his wife for life, and after her death, to his children equally. One of the daughters married Lewis, who died in the lifetime of his wife, and of her mother, the widow of the first Lewis; then the mother died, and the widow of the latter Lewis married Hynes. The question was, who was entitled to these negroes, the... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains.
Mary v. Vestry of Williams & Mary's Parish 3 H. & McH. 501, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1796) 1796 THIS was a petition for freedom. It was admitted that the petitioner was descended from Negro Mary, imported many years ago into this country from Madagascar; and the question was, whether she was entitled to her freedom? Wherever a person has been taken from a country where the slave trade was not practised and carried on, and brought here and... Most Relevant Cases  
Nancy v. Hart 2 Del.Cas. 51, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (May 01, 1796) 1796 Summons [for] freedom. James Hart disclaims, and Frisley Loyd admitted defendant. Most Relevant Cases  
Neufville v. Mitchell 1 Des. 480, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (March 01, 1796) 1796 Chancellor Rutledge delivered the decree of the court: Complainant's bill states that he was applied to by defendant, W. B. Mitchell on his own and his brother the defendant I. Mitchell's account, to become purchasers of the plantation in bill mentioned, and a considerable number of negroes; that complainant sold them the plantation for 9400l. and... Most Relevant Cases  
Parker v. Phillips 2 N.C. 451, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (October 01, 1796) 1796 TROVER for a negro, which the father of the plaintiff's wife (and also of Phillips, who claims under a subsequent gift) sent with her on her marriage to her husband's house. About a year afterwards, in occasional conversation he mentioned to his daughter, that he had not intended ever to take the negro away from her when he sent her to her... Most Relevant Cases  
Pearpoint v. Henry 2 Va. 192, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1796) 1796 THIS was an action of trover and conversion brought in the District Court of Monongalia, by the appellee, for a negro woman. Upon the plea of not guilty, the jury found a verdict for the appellee. The appellant moved in arrest of judgment, and amongst other errors assigned the following viz. that the price or value of the negro is not set... Most Relevant Cases  
Phillis v. Lewis 1 Del.Cas. 417, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (November 01, 1796) 1796 Petition for freedom. The petitioner claimed her freedom on the ground that her grandmother, who was imported into this country was a native of Asia. It appeared that her grandmother was an Asiatic, but that she and the mother of petitioner had been held as slaves, and that her father was a Negro. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Samuel 2 Del.Cas. 76, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 19, 1796) 1796 Indictment for burglary. The Court being doubtful of its having jurisdiction to try free Negroes for capital offences, the prisoner was remanded to prison. The witnesses recognized to appear at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer, to which court the Attorney General removes this cause by certiorari. By 1 Body Laws 94, Court of Oyer and Terminer... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Smith 2 Del.Cas. 68, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 07, 1796) 1796 Indictment for stealing a free woman called Sarah and carrying her away to Virginia. June 14, 1793, Act of Assembly [2 Del.Laws 1093] against kidnapping, etc. John Ralston sworn. On February 11, 1790, I set Sarah free with several others. She lived with me three years after she lived with one Caleb Cox. At the time she was taken she had been once... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Smith 1 Del.Cas. 480, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (December 01, 1796) 1796 Indictment for kidnapping against the Act of Assembly, June 14, 1793 [2 Del.Laws 1093]. One John Ralston was produced by Ridgely, Attorney General, to prove that he had manumitted the Negro on theday of - 1790, as appeared by a manumission deed which he did not produce. Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Smith 1 Del.Cas. 107, Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Delaware (November 17, 1796) 1796 Indictment for stealing the negro female slave of Burton Cannon called Lish.Non culpa, and trial November 17, 1796. Most Relevant Cases  
White v. Chambers 2 Bay 70, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1796) 1796 SPECIAL action on the case, for beating the plaintiff's negro man. It came out in evidence on the trial, that the negro in question, had the care of his master's fishing canoe on Sullivan's island, when the defendant went down to the landing place where it was, and said he would take it, and go out fishing in it. The negro told him he could not... Most Relevant Cases  
Anonymous 3 N.C. 26, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (November 01, 1797) 1797 THE bill stated, that the plaintiff's testator borrowed of the defendant a sum of money, and gave an absolute bill of sale for several negroes to the defendant, who engaged verbally to return the negroes on the re-payment of the money borrowed, with interest; the answer admitted the anvancement of the money, and stated the bill of sale to be... Most Relevant Cases  
Britol v. Dickerson's Adm'rs 1 Del.Cas. 148, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (May 05, 1797) 1797 Summons, freedom. Most Relevant Cases  
Jacks v. Henderson 1 Des. 543, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (September 01, 1797) 1797 The bill states that in the year 1789, the complainant Ann, intermarried with George Wilson, then lately from Great Britain. That she was possessed of a number of negro slaves and other property, of which said Wilson possessed himself, and appropriated to his own use. That sometime in the year 1791, the said Wilson died intestate, leaving no issue... Most Relevant Cases  
Jacobs v. Aydlotte 1 Del.Cas. 443, Supreme Court of Delaware (October 01, 1797) 1797 Trover for a female slave, value £80. It was objected that the only evidence of the property belonging to the plaintiff was that the plaintiff had made a verbal agreement with one Degrasse for the slave at a certain price; that the property was never delivered nor ever in possession of the plaintiff; nor was there any note in writing, and... Most Relevant Cases  
Levi v. Bar 1 Del.Cas. 120, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (October 01, 1797) 1797 Petition for freedom. Evidence: that Thomas Marvel often declared that when he died the Negro Levi should be free and should never serve any other person. Most Relevant Cases  
Mahoney v. Ashton 4 H. & McH. 63, General Court of Maryland (October 01, 1797) 1797 PETITION for freedom. The petition states the petitioner to be descended from a free woman named Ann Joice. The defendant pleaded, that the said Charles is the proper slave of him the said John, without this, that the said Charles is a free man, and of free condition; and this he is ready to verify; wherefore he prays judgment, if the said... Most Relevant Cases  
Peter v. State 4 H. & McH. 3, General Court of Maryland (May 01, 1797) 1797 ERROR to Frederick county court for the removal of a judgment rendered in that court in March 1797, against negro Peter, on a criminal prosecution. The clerk certified the record in the usual mode of certifying records in civil cases. The indictment charged, that negro Peter, late of the county aforesaid, labourer, the slave of Lucy James,... Most Relevant Cases  
Respublica v. Blackmore 2 Yeates 234, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (January 01, 1797) 1797 S. C. Addis. 284. A citizen of Maryland, purchasing lands in Westmoreland county, in March 1780, but not actually residing thereon with his slaves till December following, has not the benefit of registering his slaves under the act of 13th April 1782, but they are entitled to their freedom on being brought into the state. A HABEAS CORPUS ad... Most Relevant Cases  
Rose v. MacLeod 2 Bay 108, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (February 01, 1797) 1797 The cause afterwards went to a jury, when after offering this bond in evidence, to substantiate the agreement as stated in the declaration, and proving the breach and value of the negroes, the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the average value at 52l. sterling, round. Most Relevant Cases  
Shackleford v. Buchanan 1 Des. 570, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (October 01, 1797) 1797 Chancellor Rutledge delivered the decree of the court: The complainant's bill is for the purpose of obtaining payment of a legacy of 1000l. and several negroes bequeathed her by her grandfather, J. Collins, and to be quieted in the possession of the real estate of the testator, as heiress at law; and that they may receive the profits thereof, until... Most Relevant Cases  
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