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
June 12, 1792 Information of Robert Dunmore, Defender, arguing that the debts claimed are prescribed, unsupported by original grounds, and improperly pursued after forfeiture in Virginia
Appendix (from p. 21)
- Copies of receipts for grain delivered to Messrs Logan, Gilmour and Company by Mr Laban Johnston (1774-1775), and for payments by Mr Samuel Aitchison to Messrs Kendall and Johnston (1777), with certificates of authentication by Northampton County magistrates John Burton and George Savage, and Governor Benjamin Harrison (1784).
- Messrs Logan, Gilmour and Company, in Account with Messrs John Kendall and Laban Johnston, Northampton county, Virginia (15 September 1777), with affidavit, payment order, receipt, and certificates of authentication by Northampton County magistrates and Governor Benjamin Harrison (1784).
