Mary Donoho, a woman of color, was sold to Thomas Waring, who left her in the care of Bayer Jeffreys, "with directions to give her her freedom upon her earning & paying therefor eighty dollars." She was then sold to Archibald Thompson under the same terms: that she would be allowed to purchase her freedom. Donoho now asserts that she has been "hired to several persons successively at three dollars a month, until she has paid as she verily believes, to the said Archibald Thompson, more than Eighty dollars & is now Entitled to her freedom." However, Donoho has been arrested in Washington as a runaway slave, and she fears that Thompson has sold her from jail to Henry Ryan, who may sell her as a slave for life out of the court's jurisdiction. She seeks an injunction preventing Thompson and Ryan from removing her before her petition for freedom is heard by the court.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: National Archives, Washington, D. C.
