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, 1782

([Minutes,] p.49.)

The STATE against ENLOES PHILPOT.

Whereas, it hath appeard to this Court, upon the Affidavit of Jack Tappen, that the Defendant holds a certain Anthony Tappen in Bondage and Slavery, without lawful Authority for the same as the said Jack alledgeth : therefore, Ordered, on motion of Mr. Leake for the said Anthony, that a writ of Habeus Corpus ad faciendum subjiciendum et Recipiendum do issue, returnable to this Court at the next Term.