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Stewart Pipkin Court Case, 1757


Colonial Court Papers - Criminal Papers - Supreme Court, Folder 5, 1757-1758

North Carolina
Edenton
April Supreme Court 1757

Isaac Williams late of the County of Chowan planter was summoned to answer Stewart Pipkin and Keziah his wife of a plea that he tender to them three Negro Slaves of the Price of one hundred and ten pounds Lawfull Money of the Kingdom and whereupon the said Stewart and Keziah by Samuel Reddick their Attorney declare that __ they on this Tenth Day of January in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousand and seven hundred and fifty seven at Chowan County aforesaid was possessed of three Negro Slaves to wit __ of the price of sixty pounds __ of the Price of thirty Pounds __ of the price of Twenty Pounds as lawfull Money of Great Britian as of the Proper Estate Goods and Chattels and being so __ of possessed the the said Plaintifs the same Tenth Day January in the Year aforesaid and at the County afs Casually Covt the said three Negro slaves of the __ out of their hands and possession and the said Slaves of Price aforesaid afterwards to wit the Day and year aforesaid at the County aforesaid to the hands and possession of the said Defense by finding Came whereby the said Isaac then and now is in possession of the said Slaves of the Price aforesaid Nevertheless the said Isaac tho often required had not yet Delivered but hither to hath and still Doth Refuse to Deliver & now unjustly Detains the same whereupon the Plantiffs saith that they are Injured and Damage hath to the Value of Two Hundred Pounds lawfull Money of Great Britain and there fore he brings suit &c.

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