Volume 1 — New Jersey Manumission Records

<p>On Habeas Corpus for Negro Will Claiming his Freedom*</p>

<p>Note, The Counfelfor the Defendants in this Cafe, contended that they ought not to be compelled to anfwer the Allegation of Abufe, becaufe, as ike Habeas Corpus, was in common form to bring the Body, and no Caufe in particular allsdged, they could not be prefumed to come prepared to anfwer any thing but the illegal Detainer of the Negro as a Slave, and infiftcd that they ought not to be compelled to an-fwer this until a fu[fui, nt Proje cut or fiould he indorfed on. the Habeas Corpus, and Security given for the Cojis .• All, this the Com t ver ruled. The Counfcl for the Defendants undertook that the IS ¾, o fboifd not be ill-treated, and the difpute was afterwards fettled and the Court heard nothing further of th> Affair></p>

<p>On Habeas Corpus of Ntgro Margaret Reap, claiming her £ / v edom*</p>

On Habeas Corpus of Negro Lydia Reap, returnable the fir Jl Day of this Term. The State agmnft Lewis Prall and Robert Ross Admmjtrators of Isaac Prall, deceafed.

On Habeas Corpus of Negro Silas claiming his Freedom. Returnable Saturday nth September, and returned accordingly• The Defendant appears with the Negro, to do and receive, &c. purfuant to Recognizance.

<p>gn Habeas Corpus adfuhficicnduiv, for the Lihtration of Negro Abraham Solomons, and Negro Dolly his Wife.</p>

On Habeas Corpus of Negro Hagar, Wife of Cornelius Wilfon, and Cornelius, Lydia and Anna their Children, praying their Freedom, detained by the Defendant, claiming their Service for Life. [Habeas Corpus returned this Term and filed.]