Manuscripts Regarding a Court Case Involving Slavery: Benjamin Green vs. Robert Kelly

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Location of collection:
West Virginia and Regional History Center
West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
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POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
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Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Manuscripts Regarding a Court Case Involving Slavery: Benjamin Green vs. Robert Kelly, A&M 3478, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.01 Linear Feet Summary: 1/4 in.
Abstract:
Group of six manuscript documents, 26 total pages, dated 1827-1830, regarding a court case, Benjamin Green vs. Robert Kelly, involving the determination of a slave's value for one year of work in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County. List of documents: 1) deposition of Benjamin Green making charge, 4 pp., 1827; 2) depositions of John Duffield, Robert Duffield, and others, 8 pp., 10/9/1828; 3) deposition of Duffield, 4 pp., 8/29/1829; 4) summation of case, 2 pp., n.d.; 5) court decision, 4 pp., 6/17/1830; 6) accounting of interest and labor, 4 pp., 11/1/1830. There are transcripts for documents two and six.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Manuscripts Regarding a Court Case Involving Slavery: Benjamin Green vs. Robert Kelly, A&M 3478, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Background

Physical location:
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Slaves and slavery.