Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey; relative to the Manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage
[page 11]

November Term, 1782

([Minutes,] p.59.)

The STATE against LEWIS MCKNIGHT

On Habeus Corpus of Negro Caesar Tite.

AGREEABLY to the Command of the within Writ, I have here in Court the Body of the within mentioned Caesar Tite, and do say that the said Negro Tite is my Property, being bought of Kenneth Hankinson, Esquire, for valuable consideration, and he is not a free Man; but I am willing and desirous to contest that Property by a Jury of the Country, agreeably to the Laws of this State, and pray that it may not be taken from me without a Trial by Jury, &c,

LEWIS MCKNIGHT

[Other documents in this case: order, Manum.Cas.10, and decision, Manum.Cas.11-12]