Petition #21286202
- Robeson County, North Carolina. November 27, 1862. - November 27, 1862.
- Court: Superior
- Salutation: To the Honorable Robert S. French one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law & Equity, of the State aforesaid
Abstract
In 1857, free black Jacob Goins was indicted and convicted of petty larceny in Cumberland County for stealing an iron pot worth six pence. Sentenced to be hired out for five years, Goins fell into the hands of slave trader D. J. Southerland, who "frequently offered his negroes for sale & persons came & examined him with a view to purchasing him." Believing it was Southerland's intention to sell him "into perpetual slavery," he escaped. Now under arrest as a fugitive, he seeks a writ of habeas corpus.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: Writ of Habeas Corpus, 27 November 1862; Copy of Petition, Jacob Goins, 27 November 1862; Copy of Bill of Indictment, March 1858; Subpoena, 4 March 1858; Copy of Writ of Habeas Corpus, 27 November 1862
- Pages of related documents: 7
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Citation information
Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Records of the County Court, Records Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color, 1858-1862
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