Chowan County NcArchives Court.....Lander, Philip 1724
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1724

Minutes of the General Court of North Carolina
North Carolina. General Court
March 31, 1724 - April 04, 1724
Volume 02, Pages 542-551

[From General Court Records.]

Att a Generall Court of Oyer & Terminer & Gaol Delivery held at the Courthouse in 
Edenton

Philander a Negro appearing at this Barr complaining that he is held as a slave 
by Thomas Harding Executor of Thomas Sparrow deceased altho' he was freed by the 
said Sparrow in his lifetime and that all the practising Attorneys of this Court 
are retained by the said Harding and he the said Philander utterly ignorant of 
the Law or means of redress prays that he may have Councill assigned him 
Whereupon it is Orderd by this Court that Mr William Little be Councill for the 
said Philander and that he assist him as an Attorney in this Case. And thereupon 
Mr William Little exhibitted in Court the complaint of the said Philander against 
the said Thomas Harding Extor as aforesaid in these words vizl

Philip Lander alias Philander a negro man humbly complains to this Court against 
Thomas Harding Executor to the last will and Testament of Thomas Sparrow late of 
this province deceased for that the said Philip Lander alias Philander being once 
in servitude and held as slave by the said Thomas Sparrow was by him freed as by 
an Instrument under the hand of the said Thomas Sparrow and before Evidence Yet 
he the said Thomas Harding Executor as aforesaid doth hold the said Negro as a 
slave & him hath detained & still doth detain in Servitude altho' his freedom & 
the priviledge of a freed man he ought to have & enjoy and thereupon he makes 
sute to this Court that by consideration of the said Court he may be judged and 
declared free accordingly

Whereupon Thomas Boyd appeared on behalf of Thomas Harding Extor of the last will 
& Testament of the said Thomas Sparrow deceased and prayed time till the next 
Court to make answer to the aforesaid Complaint Which was granted. And it is 
further Orderd that the said Philander be & remaine in the hands & keeping of the 
Provost Marshall Genl till the next Court; and to be then produced and 
forthcoming.


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