Charles Mahoney v. John Ashton. Deposition of Howard Duvall Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Deposition of Howard Duvall May 23, 1796 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. Maryland State Archives General Court of the Western Shore (Judgments) MSA S498-220 Supplementary Documents Deposition Civil Petition for Freedom May 1799 Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832 Duvall, Howard Gwinn, John Hammond, Rezin Mahoney, Bernard Mahoney, Daniel Mahoney, Eleanor Mahoney, James Mahoney, Joseph Mahoney, Patrick Mahoney, Robert Mahoney, Robert Mahoney, Thomas Sue Prince George's County (Md.) Mahoney, Charles Ashton, John Maryland. General Court of the Western Shore Annapolis (Md.) review and relationship encoding transcribed and encoded

Charles Mahoney a John Ashton

Howard Duvall of PG County aged sixty seven years & upwards being sworn on the holy Evangely of Almighty God deposeth & saith that he knows Charles the petitioner & has known him ever since he was a child, & he has known the defendant ever since he lived at the white marsh, the deponent being a near neighbor & living within a mile of said Ashton; that Charles is the son of Eleanor a mulatto woman, who is now free, & lives as he has understood near the head of Severn, as a servant to Col Rezin Hammond. That he has known Eleanor Mahoney about fifty years & ever since she was a girl, & he knows Sue the mother of Eleanor was since her knew any body, and she lived at Enfield Chase when the deponent first knew her and she then belonged to Charles Carroll esquire now deceased; that Eleanor Mahoney got her freedom by was purchased by Robert Mahoney her husband who set her free; that the deponent never heard whow as the aforesaid Sue's Mother, nor does he know any thing about his Charles's right to freedom. That Patrick also is son of Eleanor aforesaid; Robert, Thomas, James, Bernard Daniel, Joseph are also sons of said Eleanor.

Sworn before to in open court the 23. May 1796 Jno Gwinn Cl