Petition #20380052

• Kent County, Delaware. filing started circa 1800.
• Court: County
• Salutation: To the Worshipful the Justices of the Court of Quarter Sessions now sitting in Dover

Abstract

Peter Williams, a man of color, states that "he is unjustly held and detained as a Servant by a certain John Brown." Williams asks that Brown be summoned "to shew wherefore he holds and detains your Petitioner as a Servant."

Result: Partially granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Pages of related documents: 0

2 people are documented within petition 20380052

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• Records of the Court of Common Pleas
• Page: 398-99
• Microfilm: Reel 1

Subjects

• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• FPOC sues white