Hannah Boyer, a free woman of color, sues Oliver Caulk who holds her eight-year-old son Abner as an apprentice. She charges that her son "is badly treated by his Master and others--that being but a weakly Boy, he is compelled to work beyond his ability, and obliged to go about in Frosty weather almost in a naked State." In addition, he is frequently "whipped and otherwise abused." Fearing the boy might be sold out of the state, Boyer asks that Caulk be summoned and answer to the court.
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
