Charles Mahoney v. John Ashton. Deposition of Michael Lowe 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 Michael Lowe July 1, 1797 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 Hepburn, Samuel Lowe, Michael Wheat, John 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

The Deposition of Michael Lowe of Prince Georges County being fifty seven years of age and being first duly sworn on the holy Evangels of Almighty God Deposeth and saith That he this Deponent is well acquainted with John Wheat Senior of Prince Georges County (whose Deposition this deponent hath been informed has been taken in the cause now depending in the General Court in which several negroes claiming their descent from one Ann Joyce are Petitioner again John Ashton Defendant) and that he this Deponent hath known the said John Wheat Senior as long as he can well remember any thing and the Deponent being asked what was the general Character of the said John Wheat Senior saith that he is generally reported and claimed in the neighbourhood where he resides to bear a bad character

Sworn before me the 1st day of July 1797 Sam Hepburn

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Michael Lowe (Bad Character of Wheat)

No 17.