Teresa Russel, a woman of color, states that she was emancipated by Nathan Hoskinson on 16 November 1816. Hoskinson also gave freedom to her children when they reached the age of twenty-five. Russel asserts that contrary to the act of emancipation, Thomas Hoskinson has sold her ten-year-old daughter, Evelina, as a slave for life. She fears that he plans to remove her from the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland. She asks for a writ of habeas corpus and prays that the child be given to the marshal for safekeeping.
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