Mary Ann Bond et al. v. Thomas C. Magruder. Agreement 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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 Agreement Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 778, Folder 275 Case Papers Agreement Civil Petition for Freedom March 1854 Boothe, Thomas Boothe, Ann Mareman, Susanna Winifred Saint Mary's County (Md.) Bond, Mary Ann Campbell, Alice Dorsey, Elizabeth Dorsey, John Henry Eglin, Julia Ann Eglin, Maria Louisa Eglin, Mary Ellana Magruder, Thomas C. Carrington, Edward C. Bradley, Joseph H. (Joseph Habersham), 1802-1887 Carlisle, James M. Morgan, Edwin C. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed.

Alice Campbell & Others v Magruder admr Booth

Petition for freedom

It is agreed in this case that Winifred the mother of all the Petitioners except Alice was the slave of Susan Merryman in St Marys County Maryd. That the said Susanna made her last will as follows [ the same] That Thomas Booth married Ann Merryman named in the said will, went into possession by his said marriage became possessed of of said Winifred with the other property of said Ann. That all the Petitioners except Alice were born after the said marriage in the life time of said Thomas Booth. That said Booth made his will as follows [ the same] His wife survived him and executed the deed of manumission under which petitioners claim. That Alice was the individual property of Thomas Booth

E. C. Carrington for Pets

Bradley, Carlisle & Morgan for defts

275 Trials

Campbell & al vs Magruder admr of Boothe