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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Timothy Fuller Gentleman (1702-1796)
Middleton
Biography: Slave owner, reputedly of 40 slaves. Bought Casar as 12 year old from "Guinea", speaking no English. Bound out to Taylor and later sold to Hircom.
Comments: ECCP Reimbursed for Travel: 40 miles; Attendance: 4 days 0-12-0 SCJ Nov 1771 Reimbursed for Travel: 10 miles; Attendance: 10 days: 0-9-0 SCJ June 1772 Reimbursed for Travel: 10 miles; Attendance 10 days. 0-9-0
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Supported Bond for SCJ AppealCasar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Witness for original Plaintiff
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Oral testimony for Plaintiff
" Tim. Fuller: Known Caesar between 20 and 30 years. I bought him, about 12 years old. A new Negro, right from Guinea, could not talk English. Tayler bound him, 3 Years. He came to me to buy him when Hircum owned him. I hired him of Tayler, a Month. He gave me Liberty to hire him, and I paid the Negro. Tayler said if he behaved well and got him his Money, he should be willing to let him have his Time. I said if he did not get the Money by such a Time (note 3: The MS breaks off here.)""
Note Citation: Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. Volume 2. Web Page: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017. http://www.masshist.org/publications/apde2/volume-toc?series=lja&vol=2Sources
- Dated September 21, 1771. Summons to September ECCP to Samuel Holton, Physician, Danvers, Timothy Fuller gentleman, Middleton and John Beverly, Laborer, Andover.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated September 30 1771. Bond for Appeal to SCJ.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated October 30, 1771. Summons to SCJ November 1771 held in Salem. Sixteen names, five towns.
Signatures on reverse
Timothy Fuller Gentleman
Primus a negro man living with John Flint all of Middleton in the County of Essex.
T. Russell & M. Russell, E. Hirchcom all of Reading;
Tamar,
J. Beverly
S. Poor &
C.Furbush all of Andover;
R. Thomas,
A. Smith ,
B.Guilford &
A.Putnam all of Danvers;
M. Hart of Lynn;
P. Chandler & J. Bryant.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- From SCJ Ipswich June 1772 files for Casar Vs. Taylor. Clerk's tally of costs for ECCP September 1771 costs.
- Clerk's tally of oourt costs for SCJ November 1771 and June 1772
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.