- Title
- Slavery: Runaways, Sale and Trade, Ownership, 1698-1746
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- Date
- 1698 - 1746
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina Colonial Courts."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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- Local Call Number
- CCR 194
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- MARS ID
- SR.401.6
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Slavery: Runaways, Sale and Trade, Ownership, 1698-1746
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North Carolina ss
To the Hon[oura]ble John Montgomery Esquire Chief Justice of the said province
and his assistants.
The humble petition and complaint of Samuel Scollay.
Sheweth
That a negroe man slave called Scipio belonging to your pet[ition]er on the first day
of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty one at Bertie
County in the province af[oresai]d ranaway and deserted and absented himself from the service
and employment of your pet[ition]er his master and continued runaway and absent from your
petitioner from the said first day of October one thousand seven hundred and forty one
untill the first day of October one thousand seven hundred and forty two:
That Benjamin Hill of Bartie County in the province af[oresai]d Gentleman during
the whole time af[oresai]d harboured and entertaind the said negroe slave Scipio
knowing the said negroe man slave to be the property of your pet[ition]er and to have ranaway
and ^(wilfully)^ deserted and absented himself from the service and employment of your pet[ition]er his
said master; whereby the said Benjamin by force of the act of assembly of the said pro-
:vince in that case made and provided hath not only incurr'd the penalty of forty shillings
proclamation money but also five shillings of like money for every [tear in paper] hours of [edge missing]
[missing edge] af[oresai]d the said negroe man slave was absent from your pet[ition]er as af[oresai]d; amounting
in the whole to one hundred and eighty four pounds ten shillings proclamation money.
Your pet[ition]er therefore prays that the said Benjamin Hill
may be compelled by the order, decree or judgment of this
Court to pay to your pet[ition]er the said one hundred & eighty
four pounds ten shillings proclamation money according
to the form force and effect of the act of assembly in that
case made and provided and that your pet[etition]er may be
otherwise relieved in the premisses as to your Honours
shall seem meet, and your pet[ition]er shall ever pray, [..].
Jos: Anderson for pet[ition]er