Scott, John B., 1761-1814 [Indictment of Sancho in the Easter Plot]

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GLC06338.04
GLC#
GLC06338.04-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
April 6, 1802
Author/Creator
Scott, John B., 1761-1814
Title
[Indictment of Sancho in the Easter Plot]
Place Written
Halifax County, Virginia
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 18.8 cm, Width: 15.6 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
The Age of Jefferson & Madison

One document dated 1802. Item is an indictment of Sancho written by John B. Scott, Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth in a court of Oyer and Terminer. Sancho is identified as Black man enslaved by John Booker. Document details that he has been charged with conspiring to murder Daniel Dejarnett and to organize an insurrection with other freedpeople, enslaved people and "mulattoes."

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