Deposition of John M. Wilson, Sheriff of Wayne County, to Henry Chipman, Justice of the Peace

Item

Schedule of Documents - 6A

Territory of Michigan

County of Wayne

Personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the Peace in for the said county John M Wilson Esquire who being duly sworn desposeth and saith that on the 10th day of June 1833, Ruthy a mulattos woman the respected wife of Thornton Blackburn was in the custody of the deponent as sheriff of the county of Wayne in the said Territory, in the goal of the said County by virtue of a precept directed to the deponent by Henry Chipman Esquire a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, commanding the deponent to arrest the said Ruthy as a person held to labour in the state of Kentucky and to deliver her to the agent of the claimant in the said precept named, agreeably to the provision of the act of the Legislation Council of the said Territory in such case made and provided and there on the night of the said 11th day of June the said Ruthy broke and escaped from the said custody in the said goal and the deponent has reason to believe and verily does believe that the said Ruthy unlawfully conspired with some person or persons unknown to the deponent of his own knowledge, to effect her escape.

J. M. Wilson

Subscribed and Sworn to the 12th day of August 1833

Henry Chipman

Title
Deposition of John M. Wilson, Sheriff of Wayne County, to Henry Chipman, Justice of the Peace
Date
August 12, 1833
Subject
Thornton Blackburn
Lucy Blackburn
Black History
Spatial Coverage
Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Type
Text
Description
A handwritten version of the deposition of John M. Wilson, the Sheriff of Wayne County, to Henry Chipman, Justice of the Peace
Format
PDF
Rights
Courtesy of Department of State, Office of the Great Seal, Michigan State Archives
Provenance
Michigan State Archives
Identifier
RG 56-26
Item sets
Across the River - All
ATR-Blackburn
Site pages
Lucie & Thornton Blackburn