This document records enslaved persons or free people of colour. It contains the historical language of enslavement as written by the parties and clerks of the court; that language is presented as the document's own, as evidence, and is not the voice of this archive.
Abstract
August 2, 1782 Petition of the petitioner asking the Court to alter the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor, which had freed James Graham from impressment despite evidence he was a seaman.
