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- GLC#
- GLC06338.13-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 19 April 1802
- Author/Creator
- Faulkner, William, 1774-1822
- Title
- [Arrest warrant for the slave Samuel for his role in the Easter Plot]
- Place Written
- Halifax County, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 18.2 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Arrest warrant signed by Faulkner, a justice of the peace for Halifax County. George Carrington, having supplied information under oath that Samuel, one of his slaves, "ploted & conspired the murder" of Carrington and others persons, Faulkner orders the sheriff to bring Samuel before a justice of the peace "to answer the Premises and further to be dealt with according to Law." A docket lists several personal names.
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