United States vs Bartlett, a man of color, 1799

Description:	A Negro man by the name Bartlett is accused of stealing a fiddle, two shirts, a pair of overalls, a knife, twenty pounds of flour, and twenty pounds of tallow, the meat of one deer, powder and lead. He is brought before the court in November 1799 by Constable S. Gregory with Judges Pierre Gamelin and Judge Jonathan Purcell of the General Quarter Sessions Court ordered Bartlett to jail. On December 21, 1799, Constable Gregory is accused of taking a bribe and committing perjury. He is accused of while visiting a tavern of accepting a watch and six dollars to release Bartlett from jail and into the hands of David Logan. J.P. Luke Decker hears the case. Baptist Cherokee and Joseph Moreau are placed under bond themselves for a hundred dollars each as they are accused of bribing Gregory to enable them to kidnap Bartlett and sell him back into slavery. They state that Bartlett is a slave belonging to a Col. William Montgomery of Lincoln County, KY. Joseph Baird and Jeremiah Claypoole put in $150 bond against their properties.
Origin:	1799
Contributor(s):	Bartlett;Gregory, Samuel; Gamelin, Pierre, Purcell, Jonathan; Logan, David; Decker, Luke; Baird, Joseph, William Montgomery; Claypoole, Jeremiah; Moreau, Joseph; Cherokee, Baptist;
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/kcpl/id/46297
Collection:	Knox County Public Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/;
Copyright:	No Copyright - United States;
Geography:	Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	African American Black people Black people -- America -- History Black people -- History Court Records slave labor indentured servants

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