Robert Thomas v. Henry Pile. Deposition of Thomas Webster 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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 Deposition of Thomas Webster March 23, 1793 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. Maryland State Archives General Court of Western Shore (Judgments) MSA S498-343 Supplementary Documents Deposition Civil Petition for Freedom October 1794 Barnes, Henry Cooper, Harry Mingo, Betty Semple, John Stone, Catherine Stone, David Stone, Thomas Webster, Thomas Charles County (Md.) Thomas, Robert Pile, Henry Duvall, Gabriel, 1752-1844 Key, Philip Barton, 1757-1815 Maryland. General Court of the Western Shore Annapolis (Md.) reviewed; edited added xml:ids encoded and transcribed

Thomas Webster of Charles County aged Seventy years and upwards, (a mulatto) being sworn on the holy Evangils of Almighty God, deposeth that he was born free and of a free White Woman and that he knew David Stone and lived near him when he died. That David Stone held and possessed a negro woman called Peg as a slave whom he afterwards parted with to John Semple. That he never heard that Peg was entitled to her Freedom except from herself, that she tried to swear that she was entitled to be free only might overcame her. but this deponent never heard from any other person that she had a right to Freedom; That David Stone was a good Man and kind Master, but Peg was a woman of high spirit and they could not agree. This deponent did not know Mrs Catherine Stone Widow of Thomas Stone. That this deponent knew Betty Mingo Mother of Peg, and that she was married to a mulatto man called Harry Cooper. That this deponent never heard that Betty Mingo was married to entitled to or had any Claim to her Freedom

Sworn the 23rd March 1793 Before Henry Barnes

Taken in the presence of us. G. Duvall atty. for petr. Philip B Key for Defdt

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Thomas Webster

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Entered

filed 31. Octo 1794