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- GLC#
- GLC06338.16-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 26 April 1802
- Author/Creator
- Thompson, William, fl. 1802
- Title
- [Warrant for the Sheriff of Halifax County to hold Abram, convicted of participating in the Easter Plot]
- Place Written
- Halifax County, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 19.3 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Thompson, a justice of the peace, orders the Halifax County jailer to receive into custody Abram, a slave belonging to William Smith, who has been convicted of "advising, consulting & conpsiring to rebel and make insurrection." Docket indicates this is a mittimus (a type of warrant).
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