Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #26 from Abstracts of Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867

Part of Series B
Microfilm Reel in Collection Series 7
Microfilm Frame on Reel 137
Accession Number (identifies petition on microfilm) 20984103
County Caroline
State Maryland
Year Legislative Petition Filed 1841
Abstract of Petition Bayard Davis "conceives himself to be aggrieved by a judgment" rendered on 14 June 1841. The said verdict awarded George White, a free person of color, $14.93 plus court costs of "eighteen and one half cents." Davis asks that the judgment "may be examined" according to "the equity and right of the matter" and that said judgment be reversed.

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