Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage. | ||
September Term, 1782.
(p. 49.)
The STATE against ENLOES PHILPOT.
WHEREAS, it hath appeared to this Court, upon the Affidavit of Jack Tappen, that the Defendant holds a certain Anthony Tappen in Bondage and Slavery, without lawful Authority for the same as the said Jack alledgeth : therefore, Ordered, on Motion of Mr. Leake for the said Anthony, that a Writ of Habeas Corpus ad faciendum subjiciendum et Recipiendum do issue, returnable to this Court at the next Term.
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Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage. | ||