Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the Manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage
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May Term 1787.

([Minutes,] p.449.)

The STATE against JACOB PHILLIPS.

On Habeas Corpus of Negro Obadiah Gale.

The Court having heard the Evidence and Argument of Counsel in this cause, do order that the said Jacob Phillips enter into Recognizance in the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, conditioned, that the said Jacob Phillips on the Twenty-fifth Day of June next, liberate and discharge from his Service the said Obadiah Gale, and the Court do further adjudge and order, that on the Twenty-fifth Day of June next, the said Obadiah Gale shall be set at Liberty, and go thereof free without Day, and that the said Obadiah Gale be in Custody of the Sheriff of Hunterdon till the said Twenty-fifth Day of June next, unless the Recognizance is entered into by the said [page 18] Jacob Phillips before one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, on Motion of Mr. Ellas Boudinot.