Petition #21283005
- Craven County, North Carolina. February 5, 1830. - March 9, 1830.
- Court: County
Abstract
In 1829, twenty-one-year-old Connecticut free black Abraham Carpenter ran away from home and shipped aboard a sloop to New York City. He then boarded a schooner bound for Beaufort, North Carolina, carrying a cargo of lime "for the Fort erecting at that place." At Beaufort, he left the ship and traveled on a visit to New Bern, where he was arrested and jailed as a runaway slave. Remaining in jail "Six long and weary months," Carpenter seeks a writ of habeas corpus to prove his status as a free man.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 3
- Related documents: Ard Reynolds to Thomas Watson, 18 February 1830; Depositions, Jacob Dayton, Abraham Hubbard, Fairfield County, Connecticut, 17 February 1830; Certificate, Samuel Close, Fairfield County, Connecticut, 18 February 1830; Certificate, Inhabitants of Greenwich, Connecticut, [1830]; Writ of Habeas Corpus, 9 March 1830; Order, 9 March 1830
- Pages of related documents: 10
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Citation information
Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Records of the County Court, Slaves and Free Negroes
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