Nelly Jackson v. Thomas Tebbs. Thomas Triplett's Answers to Petitioner's Interrogatories 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 2016 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 cdrh@unl.edu
oscys.case.0419.008 oscys.caseid.0447 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Derivatives must be credited to O Say Can You See, made available non-commercially, and distributed under the same terms. Requests for permission for commercial publication or other use should be emailed to the project team.

 Thomas Triplett's Answers to Petitioner's Interrogatories April 3, 1817 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia Local Government Records Collection, Arlington County Court Records Arlington County (Va.) Judgments (Freedom Suits), 1795-1858, Box 1 Case Papers Interrogatories Civil Petition for Freedom April 1818 Carr, William, Sr. Noland, William Tebbs, Betsey Tripplet, Thomas Alexandria County (Va.) Loudoun County (Va.) Prince William County (Va.) Dumfries (Va.) Washington (D.C.) Jackson, Nelly Tebbs, Thomas United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Alexandria (Washington, D.C.) added xml:ids; transcription;added Betsey Tebbs to people reviewed transcribed, encoded

The deposition of Thomas Triplett of full age, a witness produced, sworn and examined on the third day of April in the year 1817, at the house of William Noland in the County of Loudoun, by virtue of a Commission issuing out of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria, to me William Noland, a justice of the peace for the County of Loudoun directed to be used in evidence in a certain cause therein depending between Nelly Jackson plff and Thomas Tebbs deft on behalf of the plffs Interrogatories to Thomas Tripplet

1st Are you acquainted with a negro woman called Nelly, alias Nelly Jackson? If yea, when and in what manner did you become acquainted with her?

2nd Is she, or is she not one of the slaves belonging to the estate of William Carr, late of Prince William County decd. at the time of his death?

3rd. Did you or did you not sell or offer her for sale the said Negro Woman, if yea, when and where did you so offer her for sale, and to whom and by what authority? Was it by the authority of Mrs. Tebbs of Dumfries; if yea how was that authority given?

Nelly Jackson vs Thomas Triplett Tebbs

Depo.

1818. April Term, 15th day Judgmt. for Plff.

Va April 4

The Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County of Alexandria

Mail