Petition #20984917

• Baltimore County, Maryland. March 8, 1849. - June 28, 1850.
• Court: County
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Judges of Baltimore County Court

Abstract

Rebecca, Richard, Sarah Jane, Maria, Joseph Franklin and Matilda Garrett complain that they have been arrested and are "now in the custody of a certain Thomas Anderson." They aver that "they are entitled to their freedom" and "therefore pray that the question of their freedom may be inquired into."

Result: Granted; reversed.

• Number of petition pages: 1
• Related documents: Transcript of Court Proceedings, 8 March 1849--3 June 1850; Testimony, Captain Hewett, Mr. Presstman, ca. September 1849; Testimony, Lewis Maller, 27 May 1850; Order, 30 May 1850; Will of Sarah Cord, 10 September 1804; Appellate Court Ruling, 28 June 1850
• Pages of related documents: 26

27 people are documented within petition 20984917

• 3 Free persons of color
• 21 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 7 Petitioners
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

• Schweninger Collection
• Page: 3
• Microfilm: M 11014

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Sues for freedom (enslaved)
• Virtually free (enslaved)
• Skills (enslaved)
• Churches
• Freedom seekers
• Term slavery
• Family separated (Black)
• Family kept together (Black)