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- GLC#
- GLC06338.01-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1802
- Author/Creator
- Scott, John B., 1761-1814
- Title
- [Indictment of Absalum in the Easter Plot]
- Place Written
- Halifax County, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 18.9 cm, Width: 15.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Indictment of Absalum by Scott as Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth in a court of Oyer and Terminer. Absalum, "a negro man slave of the estate of John Hilyard," is charged with conspiring to create an insurrection and plotting murder on 14 April 1802.
"That the said Absalum...did feloniously consult and conspire to make insurrection... And...did feloniously, wickedly & maliciously plot the murder of sundry persons contrary to the act of Assembly intituled 'An Act to reduce into one the several Acts concerning Slaves, free Negroes and Mulattoes, and against the Peace & Dignity of the Commonwealth"
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