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Indictment of Slave Amy(1751)

  • MS 2010.2
  • 1 item

Indictment in the hand of James Nimmo, King’s Attorney for Norfolk County, addressed to the justices of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. In the document Nimmo relates how Amy, “a negro woman Slave belonging to [Mr. James] Holt of the County of Norfolk,” entered the home of Captain John Willoughby and stole his property. Docketed on the verso: “The King vs Negro.”