Walter Thomas & Dennis Thomas v. Alexander Scott. St. Mary's County Court Records
Saint Mary's County Court March Term 1797.
William Thomas
v
Edmund Plowdon Exor of Ignatius Wheeler
On the fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord Eig seventeen hundred & ninety five; the petitioner by John Allen Thomas my attorney filed in Court have the following petition towit.
To the Honorable the Judges of Saint Marys County Court. The petition of William Thomas, humbly sheweth; that your petitioner is lineally descended in the female line from a free white woman, and is entitled to freedom but is unjustly held in slavery by a certain Ignatius Wheeler of Saint Marys County, he therefore prays your worships to grant him relief in the premises and du as in duty bound will pray &c
John A Thomas for petitioner
On the thirteenth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, the Defendant by Walter Dorssey his attorney filed in Court here the following plea towit
And the said Edmund by Walter Dorssey his attorney comes and saith that the said William Thomas, is not lineally descended in the female line from a free white woman, and of this he puts himself upon the Country, and the said William doth the like andsoforth
Walter Dorsey for Deft
Jury Sworn. Verdict for the Defendant
Judgment on the Verdict
True Extract, Jo. Harris Clk
Saint Marys County Court March Term 1797
John Thomas
v
Edmd. Plowdon Exor of Ignatius Wheelor
Petition for Freedom. Plea.
Dismissed under rule replication[?]
Jesse Thomas
v
Same
Petition for Freedom. Plea
Dismissed under rule repo.[?]
Teressa Thomas
v
Richard Barnes
Petition for Freedom. Plea
Dismissed under rule repo.[?]
Susanna Thomas
v
Joseph Hall & wife admrs Jesse Wharton
Same
Juda Thomas
v
Same
Same
John Thomas
v
Same
Same
Luke Thomas
v
Same
Same
Charity Thomas
v
Same
Same
David Thomas
v
Same
Same
Stephen Thomas
v
Same
Same
Saint Marys County Court March Term 1797
William Thomas
v
Betty Ann Eden
Petition for Freedom. Plea
Dismissed under rule repo.[?]
Jeremiah Thomas
v
Same
Same
Margaret Thomas
v
Same
Same
Teresia Thomas
v
Same
Same
Henry Thomas
v
Same
Same
Eliza. Thomas
Same
Same
Matilda Thomas
v
Same
Same
Peter Thomas
v
Same
Same
Ann Thomas
v
Same
Same
Mary Thomas
v
Same
Same
Charles Thomas
v
Same
Same
Saint Marys County Sct.
I hereby certify that the aforegoing are true extracts taken from the record of proceedings of Saint Marys County Court.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and seal of my office this 25 June 1810
Jo: Harris Clk
St Marys County
William Thomas & others
v
Wheeler & others
for A. Scott Esqr.
