Petition #20380707

• Kent County, Delaware. filing started December 18, 1807.
• Court: Common Pleas
• Salutation: To the honourable the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware

Abstract

Stepney Price, a man of color, charges that George Mitchell holds or detains him as a slave. Apprehending that "he is entitled to his freedom by the Laws of the Land," Price asks that Mitchell be summoned "to answer the complaint of your petitioner."

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

2 people are documented within petition 20380707

• 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: 155-6
• Microfilm: Reel 2

Subjects

• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• FPOC sues white