NorthShore Slavery

Cases | Participants | Court Sessions | Timeline

Essex Court of Common Pleas December 1776

Justices

Cases

Pomp Somerset vs. Richard Greenleaf (1776) Case filed and disposed Monetary Damages: Defendant defaulted. Court ruled for Plaintiff who, in turn, remitted "all damages and costs whatsoever which should have been adjudged to him in this behalf" so Defendant was considered "acquitted & forever discharged."