Petition #20384401
- Sussex County, Delaware. filing started March 18, 1844.
- Court: Superior
- Salutation: To the Honorable the Judges of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for Sussex County
Abstract
In her 1796 will, Mary Dail of Caroline County, Maryland, granted Peter, Kitty, and Milly their freedom when they reached age thirty-one; she manumitted Isaac and Rose at her decease. Following her death, her daughter, Sally Dail Sheppard, took Milly and later sold her to Roger Wright. After Sally's death, Wright took Milly and her son Saulsbury Sheppard to Delaware and sold them to Thomas Jacobs for a term of years, until Saulsbury reached age twenty-one or twenty-five. Now, at age twenty-eight, Sheppard argues that he is entitled to his freedom. He asks the court to recognize his freedom and to summon Jacobs.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: Commission, Isaac Fisher, 28 August 1845; Interrogatories, 15 August 1845; Cross Interrogatories, 20 August 1845; Deposition, John Smith, Caroline County, Maryland, 1 September 1845; Deposition, Elizabeth Wright, 1 September 1845; Cross Interrogatories, 10, 18 August 1845, 8 December 1844; Cross Interrogatories, 18 December 1844; Attorney's Statement, 18 December 1844
- Pages of related documents: 34
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Citation information
Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
- Records of the Superior Court
- Page: 32-68
- Microfilm: Reel 3
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