Petition #20985546

• Baltimore City, Maryland. filing started April 25, 1855.
• Court: Orphans
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Judges of the Orphans Court of Baltimore City

Abstract

Michael Moan alleges that his twelve-year-old term slave named William Jones is "a boy of bad character having been guilty of stealing and running away on Several occasions." In order to recoup his "considerable trouble and expense," Moan asks the court to extend Jones's term of service and to grant him permission to sell Jones out of the state.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #20985544, #20985548, #20985608, #20985625, #20986213; Copy of Bill of Sale, Richard N. Campbell to Michael Moan, 13 April 1854
• Pages of related documents: 3

4 people are documented within petition 20985546

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 1 Petitioner
• 2 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

• Schweninger Collection
• Page: 261
• Microfilm: M 11026

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Purchase/Sale (enslaved children)
• Freedom seekers
• Theft by enslaved
• Insubordination
• Management (enslaved)
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)
• Term slavery