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Wilson v. Isbell 5 Call 425, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1805) 1805 By the case agreed, it appears, that M. Whiting, deceased, in the year 1778, and for some years after, was a citizen of Virginia, and the appellee Isbell, his slave, born in this state; and that she was a slave in this state on the fifth day of October, 1778, when the act for preventing the further emancipation of slaves passed, and so continued... Most Relevant Cases  
Woodley v. Abby 5 Call 336, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (May 01, 1805) 1805 In considering this case, I cannot, for a moment, forget, (whatever my sentiments may be on the abstract questions discussed before us,) that slaves are a species of property recognized and guaranteed by our laws. The most that this court can do, in the case, is, to extend to the appellees all the consideration and favour which is compatible with... Most Relevant Cases  
Beall v. Joseph Hard. 51, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (May 27, 1806) 1806 A promise or declaration of emancipation made to a slave, or for his benefit can not be enforced in a court of law or equity. The negro, Joseph, had been the slave of Woods. Woods, in 1799, sold a tract of land, including mills, etc., to Edwards, and agreed to let Edwards have Joe for four years; after which Joe was to be free. Several witnesses... Most Relevant Cases  
Ben v. Scott 1 Cranch C.C. 350, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (October 01, 1806) 1806 Ben had filed his petition for freedom, and a subpoena had issued to the defendant [Sabret Scott] to appear at next term, namely, December term, 1806. He now filed another petition, praying that the defendant may be summoned before the court to recognize not to carry the petitioner away, &c.; whereupon THE COURT ordered a subpoena returnable... Most Relevant Cases  
Ben v. Scott 1 Cranch C.C. 365, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1806) 1806 Petition for freedom by the negro Ben against Sabret Scott. Application for continuance. Granted. For prior proceedings in this litigation, and subsequent disposition of the case, see Cases Nos. 1,286 and 1,288. Most Relevant Cases  
Bryson v. Davidson's Ex'r 1 Mur. 143, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1806) 1806 This was a petition for a legacy claimed under the following clause of the will of Thomas Davidson, deceased, I give and bequeath to my well beloved daughter, Mary Long Davidson, my negro woman named Nancy, and all her children, together with all my lands and tenements, and the remaining half of my household furniture and personal estate: also my... Most Relevant Cases  
Burr v. Dunnahoo 1 Cranch C.C. 370, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1806) 1806 Petition for freedom. 1st. Ground: Brought into Maryland contrary to law. 2d. Sold contrary to law. Most Relevant Cases  
Butler v. Hopper 4 F.Cas. 904, Circuit Court, D Pennsylvania (October 01, 1806) 1806 This case comes before the court on a special verdict, the material parts of which find; that the plaintiff [Pierce Butler] formerly lived in the state of South Carolina, where, as well as in George, he had a valuable plantation, which he cultivated, and still cultivates, by his overseers and slaves, and on which he had, and still has, a furnished... Most Relevant Cases  
Bynum v. Branch 1 Mur. 132, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1806) 1806 We are of opinion that the negro slaves mentioned in the first clause of the will, after the death of the widow, belonged to the children named in the second clause; but that the representatives of Polly Branch and Rebecca Branch must be made parties, before complainants can have a decree for a distributive share of their estate. Most Relevant Cases  
Conframp v. Bunel 4 U.S. 419, Circuit Court, D Pennsylvania (January 01, 1806) 1806 CAPIAS. On a rule to show cause, why the defendant should not be discharged on common bail, the following facts were established by the plaintiff: That in the year 1787, the defendant gave his note for 55,000 livres, to a person of the name of Horguetand, payable in two instalments, for value received in 55 negroes. On the 8th of February 1787, the... Most Relevant Cases  
Ex parte Anthony 1 Cranch C.C. 295, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (March 01, 1806) 1806 Habeas corpus. On return it appeared that the prisoner was committed by a warrant under the hand of Mr. Justice Faw, in these words: Alexandria County, ss. You are hereby required to receive into your custody negro Anthony, who was brought before me by Joseph Simpson, as a runaway, said to be a slave, the property of Mr. Richard West, of... Most Relevant Cases  
Ex parte Letty 1 Cranch C.C. 328, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (July 01, 1806) 1806 Habeas corpus upon the petition of a man claiming to be the master of the negro Letty, committed to jail by a magistrate, upon a complaint made that she was entitled to her freedom under the law of Virginia, December 25, 1795 (Rev. Code 1803, p. 346). Most Relevant Cases  
Foster v. Simmons 1 Cranch C.C. 316, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (June 01, 1806) 1806 Petition for freedom on the ground that the petitioner [William Foster, a negro] was born and on 27th of February, 1801, resided in that part of the District of Columbia which was ceded by Virginia to the United States, with Mr. Chapman, his owner, who sold him to Mr. Payne, who sold him to the defendant [William Simmons] in Washington county, in... Most Relevant Cases  
George v. Elliott 2 Hen. & M. 5, Superior Court of Chancery of Virginia (December 13, 1806) 1806 If a slave who is hired for a year be sick, or run away, the tenant must nevertheless pay the hire; but, if the slave die, without any fault in the tenant, the owner and not the tenant should lose the hire from the death of the slave, unless otherwise agreed upon. THIS cause was brought up by an appeal from the county court of Charlotte. Elliott,... Most Relevant Cases  
Gurnee v. Dessies 1 Johns. 508, Supreme Court of New York (January 01, 1806) 1806 A slave, after he has obtained his freedom, is a competent witness to prove a fact which may have happened while he was a slave. ON the return to the certiorari in this cause, the only error assigned was, that the justice had refused to admit the evidence of a free black man, as to facts which took place while he was a slave. The cause was... Most Relevant Cases  
Harrison v. Evans 1 Cranch C.C. 364, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1806) 1806 Trover for a mulatto woman slave, named Nell; with a special count for carrying away the plaintiff's slave, without his consent, whereby she was lost to the plaintiff. Most Relevant Cases  
Hudgins v. Wright 1 Hen. & M. 134, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (November 11, 1806) 1806 Where white persons, or native American Indians, or their descendants in the maternal line, are claimed as slaves, the onus probandi lies on the claimant; but it is otherwise with respect to native Africans and their descendants, who have been and are now held as slaves. It seems that no native American Indian could be made a slave under the laws... Most Relevant Cases  
Jerby v. One Hundred and Ninety-Four Slaves Bee 226, District Court, D South Carolina (May 01, 1806) 1806 In admiralty. Most Relevant Cases  
Lanier v. Auld's Adm'r 1 Mur. 138, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1806) 1806 Auld sold a negro named Jim to Lanier, at the price of one hundred and sixty pounds, and at the name time executed the following writing, to wit: This is to certify that I have sold a negro man by the name of Jim for the sum of one hundred and sixty pounds in hand paid by Isaac Lanier; and I doth warrant the aforesaid slave Jim to be sound... Most Relevant Cases  
Lowry v. Mountjoy 6 Call 55, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1806) 1806 The bond created a lien which could only be shaken by bona fide creditors; and the money contained in it was agreed to be given for the slaves, at the death of Edwards. This was conformable to the devise, which was not revoked by that transaction; and, as Lowry had possession during the testator's life, the assent of the executor was not necessary:... Most Relevant Cases  
Mackie v. Alston 2 Des. 362, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (May 01, 1806) 1806 Testator makes sundry provisions for his wife, and amongst others, bequeathes her certain negroes, and says I give her the liberty to plant my land with her negroes during her widowhood. The court will not confine her right of planting to those negroes only that she took under the will. Testator also devises all his residuary estate, real and... Most Relevant Cases  
Marshall v. Williams' Ex'rs 3 N.C. 405, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1806) 1806 THIS bill in equity stated that sometime prior to the 25th December, 1789, the complainant borrowed of the defendant's testator, £>> 25, Virginia money, and gave him a bill of sale for a Negro man, with an endorsement stating that if the £ 25, with interest should be repaid on the 25th of December, 1789, the bill of sale should be void;... Most Relevant Cases  
Minchin v. Docker 1 Cranch C.C. 370, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1806) 1806 Slander. Charles Cavender, a black man, was admitted to testify for the plaintiff, after witnesses had been examined by the court on oath, and testified that Charles had acted publicly for eleven years as a free man, and was generally reputed as such. Most Relevant Cases  
Molloy's Ex'rs v. McDaniel 1 Tenn. 222, Superior Court of Law and Equity of Tennessee (November 01, 1806) 1806 After a distringas issued in detinue has failed of its effect, a fieri facias may issue. [See Waite v. Dolby, 8 H. 411 where this case is cited.] Detinue for two negroes. Judgment for the negroes or levied the distringas upon some negroes, and a house and damages for their detention, had been obtained. Upon this judgment a distringas for the... Most Relevant Cases  
Moses v. Dunnaho 1 Cranch C.C. 315, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (June 01, 1806) 1806 Petition for freedom [by the negro Moses against Patrick Dunnaho]. Most Relevant Cases  
Peyre v. Karwon 2 Des. 419, Court of Chancery of South Carolina (May 01, 1806) 1806 A widow bequeathes by general words, the distributive share she was entitled to in her intestate husband's estate, then undivided, and dies. Her husband was entitled, besides his estate in possession, to certain negroes bequeathed to him by a relation, after a life estate given to another person. This life estate did not fall in till after the... Most Relevant Cases  
Scott v. London 3 Cranch 324, Supreme Court of the United States (February 01, 1806) 1806 ERROR to the circuit court of the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria. Negro London brought an action of assault and battery against Scott, to try his right to freedom. His claim was grounded upon the act of assembly of Virginia, of the 17th December, 1792, P. P. 186; the 2d section of which is in these words: Slaves which shall... Most Relevant Cases  
Shotwell v. Kelly 2 N.J.L. 76, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (September 01, 1806) 1806 As far as can be collected from the return of the justice, this action seems to have been instituted to recover back twenty-five dollars, which had been expended in the support of a negro man, named Francis, who was alleged to be the slave of Shotwell, the defendant below. Sundry reasons are assigned for the reversal of this judgment, most of which... Most Relevant Cases  
Snipes v. Remoussin 2 Brev. 33, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1806) 1806 Motion for a new trial. Trover for certain negroes, which plaintiff claimed as formerly loaned to his son Henry, whose widow the defendant married. The defendant claimed the negroes as having been given to the son, and not lent. Verdict for the plaintiff, contrary to the opinion of Bay, J., before whom the cause was tried. It was proved that Henry... Most Relevant Cases  
State v. Emmons 2 N.J.L. 10, Supreme Court of Judicature of New Jersey (January 01, 1806) 1806 These causes have been submitted without argument. The case stated for the opinion of the court, places the claim of these two black people, to their freedom, upon two certain deeds of manumission, bearing date on the 16th of June, 1803, the one executed by John Emmons for the manumission of Dick; and the other by John Emmons, and Mary his wife,... Most Relevant Cases  
Thompson v. Thompson 3 N.C. 405, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (April 01, 1806) 1806 The plaintiff's counsel moved to set aside a nonsuit, which was suffered, because on trial the plaintiff offered an attested copy of a bill of sale for a Negro, instead of the original, and did not account for the absence of the original. The plaintiff's counsel say, that the papers were shewn to them on the day before the trial, and it did not... Most Relevant Cases  
Tooley's Ex'rs v. Jasper's Adm'rs 3 N.C. 383, Superior Courts of Law and Equity of North Carolina (January 01, 1806) 1806 TOOLY sued his father in law J. Tooly, for certain Negroes alledged to have been given by the defendant, to his daughter, the plaintiff's wife, and afterwards detained by the father. Whilst this suit depended, Jasper entered into a written agreement to pay all the costs of it, should it prove unsuccessful: and Tooly, the plaintiff at law, gave a... Most Relevant Cases  
Tryphenia v. Harrison 24 F.Cas. 252, Circuit Court, D Pennsylvania (October 01, 1806) 1806 This was an appeal, pro forma, from the district court [for the district of Pennsylvania]. It was a libel, in the nature of an information, against the brig, for a violation of the act of congress of the 22d of March, 1794, prohibiting the slave trade from the United States to foreign countries. The answer and claim of Crousillat, the owner of the... Most Relevant Cases  
U S v. Terry 1 Cranch C.C. 318, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (June 01, 1806) 1806 Indictment [against the negress Terry, a free woman] for assault and battery on Mr. Foxon. A slave was offered as witness for the traverser. Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Butler 1 Cranch C.C. 373, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1806) 1806 Indictment [against Isaac Butler] for beating a woman of color (a slave) to her damage, and against the peace and dignity of one government of the United States. Most Relevant Cases  
U.S. v. Shorter 1 Cranch C.C. 371, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (December 01, 1806) 1806 Indictment against [William Shorter] a free black man. The traverser offered a slave as a witness. Admitted, upon the authority of U. S. v. Terry [Case No. 16,454], at the last term. Most Relevant Cases  
Vaughan v. Campbell 2 Brev. 53, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (April 01, 1806) 1806 This was stated to be an action of assumpsit, brought to recover back money paid for a negro slave, who, it is alleged, the plaintiff purchased from the defendant as a sound negro, but who was unsound, as it was afterwards discovered. The doctrine on the subject of sales, I take to be this: Where the property sold is expressly warranted to be... Most Relevant Cases  
Will v. Thompson Hard. 52, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (April 01, 1806) 1806 1. In the case of Will (a negro) v. Thompson, 15th May, 1805, it was decided that a written contract, entered into between Mrs. Wilmot, of Maryland, the seller, and Thompson, the purchaser of Wlil, at the time, and as a part of the contract of sale, by which Thompson contracted to emancipate Will at the end of seven years, did not of itself amount... Most Relevant Cases  
Young v. Tavel Bee 228, District Court, D South Carolina (June 01, 1806) 1806 This is a suit in personam against Tavel, to recover the value of twenty hogsheads and eighteen barrels of sugar, and a large parcel of logwood; part of the cargo of the schooner Enterprize, belonging to the libellants. The libel states that this vessel was captured on the high seas by two French privateers, and carried into Barracoa, where the... Most Relevant Cases  
Ben v. Scott 1 Cranch C.C. 407, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (June 01, 1807) 1807 Petition for freedom [by the negro Ben against Sabret Scott.] The cause being called for trial, and no issue made up, Mr. Jones and Mr. Morsell, for the defendant, asked for time to put in a plea denying the facts in the petition, which were stated as the ground of the right to freedom. The petition contained also a general allegation that the... Most Relevant Cases The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains.
Burton v. Cannon 2 Del.Cas. 30, Court of Common Pleas of Delaware (October 01, 1807) 1807 The Court adjudged her free against Cannon, saving the rights of all other persons. Most Relevant Cases  
Chew's Adm'r v. Travers 2 Brev. 146, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (April 01, 1807) 1807 Trover for two negroes, tried in Edgefield district, before Brevard, J. The plaintiff declared as administrator with the will annexed of Drury Chew, deceased, and proved that the negroes in question belonged to the estate of said Chew at the time of his death. The defendant gave in evidence the probate of Drury Chew's will, certified by the clerk... Most Relevant Cases  
Crease v. Parker 1 Cranch C.C. 448, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (November 01, 1807) 1807 Assumpsit against a negro for the money lent and advanced by the plaintiff to the defendant to enable him to purchase his freedom, the defendant having thereby obtained a deed of emancipation. Most Relevant Cases  
Ex parte Amy 1 Cranch C.C. 392, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (April 01, 1807) 1807 Negro Amy, on her petition for freedom, having at November term, 1805, been delivered to the custody of the marshal by order of the court, and none of the material facts stated in the petition being proved by affidavit or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the court, it is ordered that she be delivered to Joseph Thomas, who is stated, in her... Most Relevant Cases  
Fairchild v. Bell 2 Brev. 129, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (January 01, 1807) 1807 Motion for a new trial. The action was assumpsit, tried before Wilds, J., in Beaufort district. The plaintiff was a physician, who seeing, not far from his residence, a female negro slave, belonging to the defendant, in the road, in a miserable condition, almost naked, shockingly beaten, and having an iron on her leg of fifteen pounds weight, was... Most Relevant Cases  
Fidelio v. Dermott 1 Cranch C.C. 405, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (June 01, 1807) 1807 Petition for freedom. The petitioner proved by Lund Washington that he was sold by him to James R. Dermott, in April, 1800, upon the express condition that he should be free at the expiration of the term of six years from the sale; and the price paid (£80) was much less than if the sale had been for life. Most Relevant Cases  
Goodwyn's Adm'rs v. Taylor 2 Brev. 171, Constitutional Court of Appeals of South Carolina (April 01, 1807) 1807 [This case is also cited in Whitfield v. Hovey, 30 S.C. 120, 8 S.E. 840, without specific application.] Trespass on the case, in Richland district, before Brevard, J. The defendant, as administrator, having recovered a judgment and execution against one Hay, pointed out a negro to the sheriff, who sold him to satisfy the said execution. The... Most Relevant Cases  
Governor v. Howard 1 Mur. 168, Supreme Court of North Carolina (July 01, 1807) 1807 A sold to B a negro slave, knowing that the slave had been imporled into this state, contrary to the act of 1794, ch. 2. This was an action of debt brought on the second section of the act of 1794, ch. 2, to recover from the defendant the penalty of one hundred pounds for selling to Benjamin Smith a negro slave imported into the state contrary to... Most Relevant Cases  
Gunnel v. Dade 1 Cranch C.C. 427, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (July 01, 1807) 1807 This was an action for money had and received, for the price of a negro sold by the defendant to plaintiff, without title. The plaintiff, on the evening before the trial, gave notice to the defendant to produce a deed of trust including the negro in question. The affidavit of service stated the service on the defendant and his promise to produce... Most Relevant Cases  
Henderson v. Allen 1 Hen. & M. 235, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (June 06, 1807) 1807 In a special verdict the Jury ought not to find the evidence, and submit to the Court to determine whether certain facts are to be inferred from it; but should find the facts explicitly, and submit to the Court the questions of law arising thereupon.--To entitle slaves brought into this Commonwealth to freedom, under the 2d section of the act of... Most Relevant Cases  
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