Robert Moody petitions for his freedom on the grounds that he was born free and "is lineally descended in the female Line from an Indian Woman a Native of America." Moody files transcripts from three earlier freedom suits as evidence in his own suit. Those suits involved the alleged descendants of a free Indian woman named Moll or Mary raised in the family of Philemon Lloyd, a white planter. Moody attests that his mother Betty was the daughter of Rachel Baker, one of the successful plaintiffs in the October 1800 freedom suit.
Result: Granted; appealed; affirmed.
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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland
