Mary Jackson v. Benjamin Davis. Petition for Freedom
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To the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court
The Petition of Mary Jackson for herself & her two infant children Samuel & Billey, humbly sheweth that she and her children have been seized & are held in slavery by a certain Benjamin Davis and other persons to her unknown, and she and her said children is free, and she prays process against said Davis & that she be not carried out of this District.
Bradley & Bradley
for petitioners
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Mary Jackson & children
vs
Benj Davis
petition
filed 23 May 1856