Petition #20483517
- Washington County, District of Columbia. August 24, 1835. - August 26, 1835.
- Court: Circuit
- Salutation: To the Honorable William Cranch chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Abstract
Nancy Jones asserts that she is a free woman of color, illegally "committed to the Prison of Washington," and unable to obtain a copy of her commitment. Jones was apprenticed by her father George Jones for four years to James Mullinix [Mullinax] to learn to be a house servant and cook. Jones seeks a writ of habeas corpus.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: Copy of Petition; Marshal's Return, ca. 1835; Order, 26 August 1835; Warrant, Nancy Jones, 4 May 1835; Copy of Indenture, George Jones and James Mullinix, 6 May 1835; Newspaper Advertisement, Nancy Jones, 25 July 1835; Correspondence, J. Walsh to E. Mason, 22 August 1835
- Pages of related documents: 7
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Citation information
Repository: National Archives, Washington, D. C.
- Records of the United States District Court, Segregated Habeas Corpus Papers
- Record group: 21
- Folder: 28
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