Dist. Court of the U. S. for the Dist.
of Col.
Clerk of the Court
"Fugitive Slave Cases, 1862," May 15-19, 1862
(By file date or affidavit)
Original papers in fugitive slave cases
before the Circuit Court of the U.S. for the District of Columbia consisting
of claimants petitions, affidavits for arrest of fugitive slaves, warrants
of arrest, depositions, court orders to deliver fugitive slaves to claimants,
and related papers.
Transcribed from National Archives
Microfilm Publication M433 "Records of the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863, Roll
3.
Fugitive Slave
Cases Home
Benjamin
O. Scheckells vs. George Washington Hawkins
Style
of Court
In the records of
proceedings of the said court amongst others, is the following, to wit:
In re: George Washington
Hawkins
a fugitive from labor from the District of Columbia
Be it remembered that
at the present term of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for
an County of Washington--Benjamin O. Sheckells by Charles S.
Wallach Esq. his solicitor filed in court here his petition in the
words and of the tenor following to wit: (here unseal petition)
Whereupon the court
made the following order in the premises to wit:
Upon which said petition
of Benjamin O. Sheckells, a citizen of the United States and of
the District of Columbia, and resident therein, claimant as therein set
forth, competent and credible witnesses were sworn and examined in the
Circuit Court of the District of Columbia on the 17th Oct 1859 who testified
and proved to the satisfaction of said court that George Washington
Hawkins, a bright mulatto man, aged about thirty three years about
five feet ten inches high with a scar about an inch in length on his forehead
is the slave for life of the said petitioner Sheckell, and owes service
and labor to the said Sheckells, that said mulatto slave escaped from
the service of said Sheckells in the District of Columbia out of said
District, and is now in some other State or Territory of the United States,
which, said facts so proved, the said Circuit Court of the District of
Columbia this 117th Oct. 1859 orders sand directs to be recorded and a
copy of said record, duly attested by the clerk of said Court under the
seal of said Court to be furnished to the petitioner Sheckells, he Sheckells
paying therefor the accustomed legal fees.
By order of the Court
Test. Jno. A. Smith, Clk
District of Columbia
Washington County, to wit:
I John Smith, clerk
of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a full true and perfect
transcript of all the proceedings had in the said Court in the matter
of George Washington Hawkins, a fugitive from labor owing service
to Benjamin O. Sheckells, taken from the records of the proceeding
of said Court.
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court
this 18th day of October A. D. 1859.
Jno. A. Smith, Clerk
District of Columbia----
I James Dunlap
Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia certify
that the above attestation of John A. Smith, clerk of the Circuit Court
of the District of Columbia for the County of Washington is in due form.
Given under my hand this 18th day of October 1859.
A citizen of the United
States
& of the District of Columbia
& resident therein
Upon which said petition
of Shekells, claimant as therein set forth, competent and credible witnesses,
were sworn and examined, in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
on the 17th Oct 1859, who testified and proved to the satisfaction
of said Court, that _______________ a bright mulatto man aged about thirty
three years, about five feed ten inches high, with a scar about an inch
in length on his forehead, is the slave for life of the said petitioner
Shekells, and owes service and labor to the said Shekells, that said mulatto
slave escaped from the service of said Shekells, in the District of Columbia,
out of said District, and is now in some other State or Territory of the
United States, which said facts so proved, the said Circuit Court of the
District of Columbia, this 17th Oct 1859 orders & directs
to be recorded, and a copy of said record, duly attested by the clerk
of said Court, under the seal of said Court, to be furnished to the petitioner
Shekells, he Shekells paying the accustomed legal fees.
By Order of the Court
12.00
3.00
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