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
July 2, 1776 Petition of the heirs of Alexander Cunningham, asking the Court to adhere to the Lord Justice Clerk's interlocutors
Appendix
- Letter from William Cuningham to Andrew M'Redy of Percietown (July 29, 1753)
- Letter from William Cuningham to Andrew M'Redy of Percietown (Jan. 26, 1754)
- Letter from William M'Redy to Alexander Cuninghame (Nov. 24, 1765)
- Letter from William Cuningham to William M'Redy (Aug. 23, 1766)
- Letter from John Semple to William M'Redy (Jan. 23, 1768)
- Letter from William Cuningham to William M'Redy (May 9, 1767)
- Letter from William Cuningham to William M'Redy (Oct. 24, 1767)
- Letter from William Cuningham to William M'Redy (Nov. 11, 1767)
- Letter from William M'Redy to William Cuningham (Nov. 12, 1767)
- Copy of Letter from John Semple to William M'Redy (Mar. 26, 1768)
- Letter from John Semple to William M'Redy (May 26, 1768)
- Letter from John Semple to William M'Redy (July 20, 1768)
- Copy Letter from William M'Redy to John Semple (Bourtreehill, [1768])
- Letter from John Semple to William M'Redy (Dec. 29, 1768)
- Copy of Letter from William M'Redy to Messrs Spiers and M'Caul, arbiters ([1772])
- Copy Letter from William Cuningham to Messrs Spiers and M'Caul (May 10, 1772)
- Copy of Letter from William M'Redy to William Cuningham (Nov. 21, 1772)
- Letter from William Cuningham to William M'Redy (Nov. 27, 1772)