Washington County Miscellaneous Data

 Index of Persons Listed On This Page:

1. John (free person of color)

 The Data

 

• Name  John
  Details  Abducted and taken into Virginia, circa 1791.  Three men were indicted in Washington County in the case of his kidnapping, and the following action was taken in 1791 by the Pennsylvania courts:  "June 4: Wrote a letter to His Excellency Beverly Randolph, Esq. Gov. of the State of Va. demanding that Balwin Parsons, Francis McGuire and Absalom Wells who have been indicted in Washington Co. for having illegally and forcibly carried off from the said County a certain free Negro named John with an intention to sell him as a slave in another State may be delivered up to this State."  The notation was listed in the published Pennsylvania Archives, Ninth Series, 1791.
  Source      "Pennsylvania Archives--Ninth Series--1791," at http://mhrising.com/Pardons/1791.htm, accessed 16 October 2006.