Moses Bell v. James Rhodes. Minute Book Entry 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 2016 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Minutes of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, 1801-1863 August 12, 1842 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21 Microfilm 1021, Reel 4 Minutes of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, 1801-1863 Supplementary Documents Minute Book Civil Petition for Freedom March 1842 Bender, Jacob Brooke, Edmund Campbell, Daniel Dashiell, George W. Goddard, John H. Harr, Henry Hoff, Lawrence Keeting King, Vincent Little Lusby, James MacGill, Thomas Middleton, Benjamin F. Nevitt, Robert K. Reily, Thomas B. Alexandria County (Va.) Washington County (D.C.) Washington (D.C.) Special Verdict Bell, Moses Rhodes, James United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed, edited Encoded and transcribed

Moses Bell vs James Rhodes

330. Trials.

Jury Sworn Verdict for Special Verdict (see below)

for Plff for Deft. 1. John H. Goddard 2. Daniel Campbell 3. Benjamin F. Middleton 4. Thomas McGill 5. Jacob A. Bender. 6. Henry Harr. 7. Robert K. Nevitt 8. Vincent King 9. George W. Dashiell 10. Thomas B. Riley 11. James Lusby 12. Edmund Brooke

(Copy Special Verdict) We of the Jury find that previous to the year 1837 the Petitioner was the Slave of a certain Lawrence Hoff a resident of Alexandria County in the District of Columbia. That in the year 1837 the said Hoff then owning & possessing the Petitioner as his Slave in the County of Alexandria aforesaid whereof he continued to be a resident, did sell & deliver the Petitioner to one Little, then being a resident of Washington County in the District of Columbia aforesaid & that the delivery of the Petitioner was made to the said Little in Alexandria County aforesaid, and the Petitioner was immediately removed by said Little to Washington County aforesaid to reside, and also for sale, whereof said Little was resident. That the said Little shorty afterwards, to wit, about one year or a little more, sold the Petitioner to one Keating in Washington County, who sold and delivered him to the Defendant. that since said Sale to said Little the Petitioner has always been kept and held in slavery in the County of Washington aforesaid. that at the time of the sale & delivery of the Petitioner as aforesaid by Hoff to Little, the Petitioner was more than forty five years of age, to wit, he was 54 & 55 years old and is now 59 or 60 years old. And if upon the facts aforesaid the Law is for the Petitioner, then we find for the Petitioner in the issue joined. And if upon the facts aforesaid, the Law is for the Defendant, then we