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Memd on the trial of this cause (a) the Dft read in Evidence to the Jury the following deed Bill of Sale the execution of which was proved (here insert it.) whereupon

The counsel for the Petitioner prayed the court to instruct the Jury, that the description of Alexander Wilson, contained in the said bill of sale, to in these words "Alexander Wilson of the state aforesaid" was not competent evidence to the Jury to go to the Jury for this cause, that the said Alexander Wilson was (at the date of the said bill of sale) the a resident or citizen of the State of Virginia, which instruction the Ct gave as prayed, to which the Dft excepts & this his bill of exceptions is signed seald & enroll'd

this 20th of June 1812.

W. Cranch (seal)
B. Thruston (seal)

 

Esther Bradley
v.
Eliz. Wilson

Memd on the trial of this cause the Dft read in evidence to the Jury the following deed (here insert it)

 

(a)

The Petitioner offered parol[?] evidence to prove that the Petitioner was ca purchased in Virginia and imported into the State of Maryland by one Alexander Wilson in the year 1795; that the said Wilson was not at the time of purchasing the said petitioner in Virginia and bringing her into Maryland a citizen or resident of Virginia, but that his residence in Virginia was occasional and for the particular purposes of working in the stone-quarries there for the commissioners of the City of Washington, and that he considered himself at old the time as a resident of the City of Washington in the state of Maryland;— the Deft on her part offered paral[?] evidence to prove that the said Alexander Wilson was at the times aforesaid a single man, not settled in any fixed home nor a house keeper: that he did was at the times aforesaid and for 5 or 6 years before and inhabited a resident of Virginia, that he purchased the said slave Petitioner in March 1795 removed into the state of Maryland and some time between that time and the 8th of June 1795, he removed from Virginia into Maryland, and within 12 months thereafter brot the petitioner from Virginia to his place of residence in Maryland: and that the said Wilson and the petitioner were both often at the time both as well of the removal of said Wilson as of the said Petitioner, of the description prescribed by the proviso of the act of Assembly in favor of persons removing from any of the United States into the state of Maryland; and