Petition #20381403

• Kent County, Delaware. filing started November 28, 1814.
• Court: County
• Salutation: To the honourable the Justices of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the State of Delaware in and for Kent County

Abstract

Petitioning by his mother Peggy, Richard Clifton, a man of color, charges that he "is illegally held as an apprentice by a certain Solomon Pritchet." He asks the court to summon Pritchet "to answer the complaint of your petitioner."

Result: Partially granted.

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

3 people are documented within petition 20381403

• 2 Free persons of color
• 1 Defendant
• 2 Petitioners

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• Records of the Court of Common Pleas
• Page: 189-90
• Microfilm: Reel 2

Subjects

• FPOC sues white
• Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)