Henry Jackson v. Ariss Buckner & Bernard H. Buckner. Petition for Freedom

 

To the honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington in the District of Columbia in Chancery sitting

The Petition of Henry Jackson a coloured person humbly complaining sheweth unto your Honors that he is free and entitled to his freedom and that being so entitled he on the 8th July instant filed in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington in the District of Columbia his Petition for freedom against Bernard H Buckner and Aris Buckner who claim your Petitioner as their slave which said Petition is now pending in and remains undecided by the said Circuit Court That your Petitioner is now confined in the Jail of the said County of Washington & in the custody of the Marshal of the said District of Columbia by the order or procurement of the said Bernard H Buckner and Aris Buckner or of one of them as a runaway under the pretence of safe keeping but with a view as your Petitioner has reason to believe and does believe for the purpose of removing your Petitioner from the County and District aforesaid and from under and beyond the Jurisdiction of the said Circuit Court and thereby prevent and intefere with the due administration of Justice In tender consideration whereof and inasmuch as your Petitioner is remidlys[?] at and by the strict rules of the common law and can only find relief in a court of Equity where matters of this sort are properly cognisable to the end therefore that the Justice Equity and right of the case may be inquired into Your Petitioner prays your Honors to grant unto him the United States most gracious writ of injunction commanding the said Bernard H Buckner and Aris Buckner their agents and attorneys from removing your Petitioner from the County and District aforesaid in manner and form aforesaid and also commanding the said Marshal to detain and keep in his custody and not to deliver up to the said Bernard H Buckner and Aris Buckner their agents and attorneys your Petitioner till the further order of this Court and such further relief in the premises as his case may require and as in duty bound your Petitioner will ever pray and so forth

John J Dermott
Solr for Petitioner

 

District of Columbia
County of Washington to wit

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid Henry Jackson the Petitioner in the within and foregoing bill named and after having the said bill read and explained to him and the nature obligation and penalties of and attendant on the falsely taking of an oath solemnly made oath that the matters and things stated in the said bill were so far as they are stated to be of his own knowledge true and so far as they are stated to be of the knowledge of others he verily believes them to be true Given under my hand this 16th day of July in the year of our Lord 1833

Geo Naylor J. Peace

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Henry Jackson
vs
Aris Buckner & Bernard H Bucker

filed 17th July 1833

To Wm Brent esqr Clerk &c
Let a writ of injunction issue as prayed in this Petition
B Thruston
asst Judge &c
16th July 1833.

fd 17 July 1833