1839-1869 Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court Docket
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Description
"Accused of taking a slave (name unknown) belonging to Brightwell across the river to Kansas." "The Grand Jurors for the State of Missouri for the body of the County of Platte aforesaid being duly sworn upon their oath present that John Vaughn late of said county on the 1st day of December A.D. 1857 at the County of Platte aforesaid was then and there a ferryman and as such ferryman was in command of a certain boat crossing and re-crossing the Missouri River from the County of Platte into the Territory of Kansas; And as such ferryman he, the said John Vaughn, did then and there feloniously cross and suffer and permit to be crossed on said boat and escaping so crossing said river as aforesaid, a certain slave belonging to John W. Brightwell but whose name is the name of which slave is to the jurors unknown, said slave being then and there taken on said boat across said river and carried into the Territory of Kansas by the said ferryman aforesaid, whereby said slave was carried out of this State, all of which act aforesaid were then and there done by the said John Vaughn as aforesaid without the written consent of the master or owner of said slave, the said John W. Brightwell then and there being the master and owner of said slave, contrary to the form of Statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State."
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Date(s) of Creation
2/25/1858
Other Names and Numbers
Other Names
Name Type
Enslaved
Other Name
Unidentified Slave
Name Type
Enslaver
Other Name
Brightwell, John W.
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Missouri State Archives, Judicial Records: (see weblink)
1858.02.25 MJRHD.465486 Missouri vs. John Vaughn C62116_B41F89_StatevVaughn.pdf.pdf
1858.02.25 MJRHD.465486 Missouri vs. John Vaughn Summary.pdf
1858.02.25 MJRHD.465486 Missouri vs. John Vaughn Record.pdf
