Washington County Miscellaneous Data
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Index of Persons Listed On This Page:
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John (free person of color)
- Unnamed term slave, 13 years old
The Data
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Name John
Details Abducted and taken into Virginia, circa 1791.
Three men were indicted in Washington County in the case of his
kidnapping, and the following action was taken in 1791 by the
Pennsylvania courts: "June 4: Wrote a letter to His Excellency
Beverly Randolph, Esq. Gov. of the State of Va. demanding that Balwin
Parsons, Francis McGuire and Absalom Wells who have been indicted in
Washington Co. for having illegally and forcibly carried off from the
said County a certain free Negro named John with an intention to sell
him as a slave in another State may be delivered up to this State." The
notation was listed in
the published Pennsylvania Archives, Ninth Series, 1791.
Source "Pennsylvania
Archives--Ninth Series--1791," at
http://mhrising.com/Pardons/1791.htm, accessed 16 October 2006.
- From: The History of Washington County: from its first settlement
to the present
time... by Alfred Creigh, 1871 Second Edition:
"In the Reporter of March 8, 1813, is the following advertisement:
For sale,
a negro boy who has thirteen years to serve; he is stout and healthy. Apply
at
the office of the Reporter." (Jan Slater to Afrolumens Project, 19 April
2009)
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