Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage. | ||
September Term, 1783.
(p. 252. 270.)
MERCY HILL against WILLIAM LEDDELL.
On Habeas Corpus for Manumission.
IT being alledged by the Counsel, for the said Mercy Hill the Plaintiff, that she is the Daughter of a certain Jupiter Lee, a Negro Slave, heretofore belonging to Samuel Lec of the Town of Swansey in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, now Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Deliverence Hill, a free-born native Indian Woman ; that in her Infancy she was put apprentice to James Power of that Place, with whom, or his Assigns she served many Years, and then laboured for her Livelihood in different Places as other free Persons usually do ; that long afterwards she was by some Means sold as a Slave, and by sundry Transfers and Sales came at length into the Possession of the Defendant William Leddell.
Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the
manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage. | ||