Susan Vigel v. Henry Naylor. Petition for Freedom Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone 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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 Petition for Freedom August 9, 1858 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 881, Folder 1001 Case Papers Petition Civil Petition for Freedom October 1858 Naylor, George Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Vigel, Susan Naylor, Henry Blair, Montgomery United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed.

Susan Vigel vs Henry Naylor Administrator

Petition for freedom

To the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia

Your petitioner respectfully represents unto your Honors that she is free & is unjustly detained in slavery by said defendant and prays that defendant be summoned to appear before your Honorable Court to make answer hereto and upon the hearing give judgment against defendant & grant your petitioner such other & further relief as your petitioner may appear to be entitled to & your petitioner will ever pray &c

M. Blair for petitioner

446.

In Circuit Court Dist Columbia October Term 1858

Susan Vigel vs Henry Naylor Admr George Naylor

Petition for freedom

Filed 9t Augt. 1858.

M. Blair for petr.