Petition #20382215

• Kent County, Delaware. filing started circa 1822.
• Court: Common Pleas
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware in or for Kent County

Abstract

Jane Millis, a woman of color, states that William Spear holds and claims her as a slave. Apprehending "that she is entitled to her freedom," Millis asks that Spear be summoned "to answer the said complaint of your Petitioner." One of Jane's owners testified that she probably poisoned his horses and threatened to put his wife "out of the way."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Depositions, James Cheffins, James Wright, John Denning, 11 May 1822 [Depositions on Reel 2]
• Pages of related documents: 0

3 people are documented within petition 20382215

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• Records of the Court of Common Pleas
• Page: 326-27
• Microfilm: Reel 1

Subjects

• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• FPOC sues white
• Poisoning
• Freedom seekers
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)
• Slave trade (domestic)