Edward Queen v. John Ashton. Petitioner's & Defendant's Pleas Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Kaci L. Nash Elizabeth Askren 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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 Plea May 22, 1794 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. Maryland State Archives General Court of the Western Shore (Judgments) MSA S498-3 Supplementary Documents Plea Civil Petition for Freedom May 1794 Queen, Mary Queen, Edward Ashton, John Duvall, Gabriel, 1752-1844 Cooke, William Maryland. General Court of the Western Shore Annapolis (Md.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited updated encoding added attorneys to header transcribed, encoded

Edward Queen v John Ashton

And the said John by William Cooke his attorney (admitting that the said Edward is Descended from Mary Queen mentioned in the said Petition) comes and says that the said Mary Queen the Grandmother of the Petitioner from whom by Descent the petitioner claims his Freedom always was a slave: and this the said John is ready to verify without that, that the said Mary was Free as alleged by the said Petition

W Cooke for Deft.

And the said Edward by his attorney aforesaid saith that the said Mary Queen was not a slave at the time of the Birth of the Issue from of Mary Queen from whom the said Edward is descended was not a slave, but was free be as the said John above in pleading hath alleged, and this the said Edward prays may be enquired of by the Country soforth. And the said John doth the like.

G. Duvall for Petr.

Queen vs Ashton

plea & issue

Judgts May 1794.

filed 22d May 1794