Simon & Lewis v. Paine's Administrator. Circuit Court Report Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone 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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 Reports of Cases Civil and Criminal in the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, from 1801 to 1841 William Cranch Little, Brown and Company Volume IV 1852 Boston Supplementary Documents Court Report Civil Petition for Freedom November 1830 Thruston, Buckner, 1763-1845 Paine Maryland Lewis Simon Mason, Thomson Francis, 1785-1838 Taylor, Robert I. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Alexandria (Washington, D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed, edited transcribed; encoded

Negroes Simon and Lewis v. Paine's Administrator.

Slaves escaping from Maryland and sueing here for their freedom, will not be delivered up to the person claiming to be their owner, upon security to return them to Maryland; their claim for freedom having arisen here, and their witnesses residing here.

This was a suit for freedom, docketed this term by an order of the Court made ex parte.

Mr. Taylor, for the defendant, moved the Court to rescind the order, upon bond and security to take the negroes back to Maryland, from whence they escaped into this district, and gave themselves up to the magistrate, and prayed leave to sue in formâ pauperis.

Mr. Mason, contrà. Their right to freedom arose under the laws here.

The Court (Thruston, J., absent,) refused to rescind the order.

The cause was tried, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, upon the ground that they had been brought here by their master and kept here more than a year.