Legal Papers of John Adams, volume 2

Wetmore's Minutes of the Argument

Wetmore's Minutes of the Argument

Wetmore’s Minutes of the Argument<a xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" href="#LJA02d023n1" class="note" id="LJA02d023n1a">1</a>: Essex Superior Court, Salem, November 1771 Wetmore, William Wetmore’s Minutes of the Argument: Essex Superior Court, Salem, November 1771 Wetmore, William
Wetmore's Minutes of the Argument1
Essex Superior Court, Salem, November 1771

Taylor v. Caesar. Trespass for enslaving the defendant. Plea non cul. Evidence offered was a bargain between Caesar and Taylor that on payment of £— he woud set the boy free and proof was of payment of considerable sum, and Taylor offered bill of sale in Evidence to which it was objected that its improper and doth not tend to support the plea and Trials per pais and Gilbert L. Evid. were produced. The Court doubted at first but since it was (I think June 1772) rejected by whole Court.

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Wetmore Notes. Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 184.