Petition #20482201

• Washington County, District of Columbia. June 25, 1822. - October 12, 1822.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, sitting, in Washington County, as a Court of Equity

Abstract

Adam Johnson, a male slave, states that George Clarke agreed to manumit him for $350 and gave him three years to raise the money. Johnson has paid part of the sum, but Clarke has begun "to harass your said orator by expressions of great dissatisfaction that your orator does not pay him more rapidly." Johnson fears Clarke will "dispose of your orator into foreign parts and thereby deprive him of the means of obtaining his manumission." Johnson asks the court to subpoena Clarke and issue an injunction against him.

Result: Granted; dissolved.

• Number of petition pages: 5
• Related documents: Answer, George Clarke, 12 October 1822; Injunction, George Clarke, 11 June 1822; Deed of Manumission, Adam Johnson, 17 June 1822; Receipt of Adam Johnson, 23 June 1822; Summons, George Clarke, 26 June 1822; Order, 12 October 1822
• Pages of related documents: 7

3 people are documented within petition 20482201

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: National Archives, Washington, D. C.

• Records of the United States Circuit Court, Chancery Dockets and Rule Case Files
• Record group: 21
• Folder: 20

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Purchase of freedom
• Virtually free (enslaved)
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)
• Family separated (Black)