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- Title: Claudius F. Le Grand, Appellant v. Nicholas Darnall
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1829
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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This case is brought up by appeal from a decree of the circuit court for the district of Maryland, sitting as a court of equity; and is submitted on written argument. The principal facts are the following. Bennett Darnall, late of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, on the 4th day of August 1810, duly made and executed his last will and testament, and thereby devised to his son, the appellee, several tracts of land in fee, one of which was called Portland Manor, containing by estimation five hundred and ninety six acres. The mother of Nicholas Darnall was the slave of the testator, and Nicholas was born the slave of his father, and was between ten and eleven years old at the time of the death of the testator. Bennett Darnall, in his will, refers to and confirms two deeds of manumission executed by him; one bearing date in 1805, and the other in 1810. In both of those deeds, Nicholas Darnall and a number of other slaves were included, and emancipated after his decease. The testator died in the month of January 1814.