1839-1869 Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court Docket
Archive Items Details
Description
Some witness statements refer to the presence of slaves working for the plaintiff; Alpheus Ellington "...had a Negro woman living with him and cooking for him, the property of his father, that he had at times negro men of his father's assisting him in making rail fence and putting in his crop..." Pleasant Ellington went to Kentucky for 6 weeks to attend to business and paid his son Alpheus to manage Pleasant's farm with "two Negroes, a man and woman". "...that a Negro woman of the Plaintiff's father lived in the log cabin and cooked for Plaintiff." Case moved to Platte County Circuit Court by Writ of Certiorari; On a forcible entry on land in Section 30, Township 54, Range 33.
Missouri Archives Judicial Records Historical Database has an on-line record and scanned case file images.
Date(s) of Creation
2/25/1841
Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
Enslaved
Other Name
Unidentified Woman
Name Type
Enslaver
Other Name
Ellington, Alpheus & Ellington, Pleasant
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Source Citation
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Missouri State Archives, Judicial Records: (see weblink)
