Walter Thomas & Dennis Thomas v. Alexander Scott. Affidavit of Thomas Buchanan Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Elizabeth Askren Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Affidavit of Thomas Buchanan June 24, 1810 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 20, Folder 217 Case Papers Affidavit Civil Petition for Freedom June 1810 Briscoe, William D. Buchanan, Thomas Law, John Pile, Henry Stone Thomas, Judy Thomas, Robert Charles County (Md.) Thomas, Dennis Thomas, Walter Scott, Alexander United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed.

admitted as if sworn to. J Law 30 June 1810.

I certify that some time in 1794 or 1795, I filed a petition for Judy Thomas agt. the Rev. Henry Pile in Charles County Court, the object of which was to procure her Freedom, her son Robert Thomas having before that period sued for, and obtained his freedom, by a judgment of the General Court, that besides Mr. Pile, Miss Stone, Mr. William D. Briscoe and Mr. Alexander Scott, held negroes of the same family, that is, of the Thomass', who also claimed their freedom, some of whom applied to me to file Petitions for them, which I declined doing, untill Judy's should be disposed of. That when the petition agt. Mr. Pile was filed it was understood between him and myself, that if she got free, all the rest of her family should be liberated without any further litigation, and I think it probable, but of this I was not certain, that Mr. Scott under a similar arrangement with me. It was my Habit to sue for one or two only if a family, during claims to freedom, under a Hope in some Instances, and in others positive stipulations that if they suceeded the rest of the family would be discharged.

Th Buchanan June 24, 1810

Mr. Buchanan