Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the Manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage
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September Term, 1792

([Minutes,] p.471.)

The STATE against WILLIAM LAIRD.

On Habeas Corpus of Negro Rachel claiming her Freedom.

[The Writ returned and filed.]

THE Court taking into Consideration this case, and it appearing to depend on the Decision, in the case of the State against James Anderson, on the Habeas Corpus of Negro Silas, September Term, 1790, ordered, That the said Negro Rachel be discharged and entirely liberated from the custody of the said William Laird, on the Motion of the Attorney General.