VITEL
Case and Referendum
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Vitel a free woman of color versus Margaret Taylor
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Trespass
Assault and Battery and false imprisonment
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23rd Oct. 1817
To March 1817
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not executed by order of plaintiff J. Johnston
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VITEL
Showing until February 11, 2017
State of Tennessee,
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To the sheriff of Washington county, greeting: You are hereby commanded to take the body of Margaret Taylor if to be found in your county, and him safely keep, so that you have ... before the honorable circuit court, to beholden for Washington County, at the Court-House in Jonesborough, on the first Monday of March next, then and there to answer Vitel a free woman of color of a plea of trespass with force and arms an assault did make and ...did imprison for a long space of time to wit the time of five years to her damage one thousand dollars. Herein fail not, and have you then there this writ. Witness, James V. Anderson, Clerk of said Court at Office, the first Monday of September 1817
