Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage. | ||
September Term, 1790.
(p. 119.)
The STATE against JOHN WARE.
On Habeas Corpus of Negro Jethro (Son of Charity Briggs) claiming his Freedom.
IT appearing to the Court that the said Negro Jethro was born on the eighth Day of September, 1768, in the County of Cape-May in this State ; that his Mother Charity Briggs a (Mulatto Woman) was free at the Time of his Birth—That the said Charity was by Indenture bound by the Justices and Overseers of the Poor of the Lower Precinct of Cape-May to one Nathaniel Foster, in order to bear the Expences of her having had the Small-Pox—That in the said Year of 1768, the said Charity was purchased by a certain John Connel, she
And the Court having taken the said Case into Consideration, are unanimously of Opinion, That the said Jethro being the Son of a free Woman, and of the Age of Twenty-one Years, is now entitled to his Freedom, and do therefore adjudge, that the said Negro Jethro (otherwise called Jethro Briggs) be discharged from the Custody of the said John Ware, on the Motion of Joseph Bloomfield, Attorney General.
Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage. | ||