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@connecticut:place {country: @united_states}
@wallingford:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_adj_county_court:place {type: "court", location: @new_haven, jurisdiction: @new_haven_county}
@joseph_johnson:person {role: "plaintiff"}
@thomas_cook:person {role: "defendant"}
@cesar:person {status: "enslaved", ethnicity: "African American"}
@oliver_stanley_just_peace:person {role: "clerk"}
@seth_harbrops_cook:person {role: "constable"}
@assault:concept {}
@slavery:concept {}
@african_american_history:concept {}
@legal_documents:concept {}
@johnson_v_cook_assault_collection:collection {title: "Johnson v. Cook Assault Case Collection, 1779", created: @date_1779_12_16, institution: @connecticut_state_library, subjects: [@assault, @legal_documents, @slavery, @african_american_history, @new_haven_county]}
@johnson_v_cook_assault_case:event {date: @date_1779_12_16, location: @new_haven, subject: "Assault on enslaved man Cesar"}
@court_appeal_document:document {date: @date_1779_12_16, location: @new_haven, description: "Summons for Joseph Johnson to appear before Adj. County Court against Thomas Cook regarding assault on Cesar"}
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@file_pinax -> documents -> @johnson_v_cook_assault_collection
@johnson_v_cook_assault_collection -> held by -> @connecticut_state_library
@johnson_v_cook_assault_collection -> contains -> @johnson_v_cook_assault_case
@johnson_v_cook_assault_collection -> contains -> @court_appeal_document
@johnson_v_cook_assault_case -> plaintiff -> @joseph_johnson
@johnson_v_cook_assault_case -> defendant -> @thomas_cook
@johnson_v_cook_assault_case -> victim -> @cesar
@court_appeal_document -> issued by -> @new_haven_adj_county_court
@court_appeal_document -> authored by -> @oliver_stanley_just_peace
@court_appeal_document -> signed by -> @seth_harbrops_cook
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_courtappeals_johnson_001_jpg -> depicts -> @court_appeal_document
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_courtappeals_johnson_001_tif -> related to -> @court_appeal_documentTo Wallingford Constable in New Haven County, Greeting, In the Name of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut you are hereby commanded to summon Joseph Johnson of said Wallingford to appear before the Adj. County Court to be held at New Haven within & for the County of New Haven on the Last Tuesday of next December then and there to Answer unto Col. Thos. Cook Esq. of said Wallingford in an Action of Ass &c. whereon the Plaintiff & says that on about the 12th Day of Nov. Last the Def. in New Haven aforesaid an Assault made on the Body of his the R.P.'s Negro Man Servant named Cesar who was then about his Lawful Business in said New Haven and the Def. without any the least Provocation from said Cesar did then and there with a Large Club or Cudgel beat, bruise & wound said Cesar in a very terrible Manner in one of his Elbows so that the bone of the Elbow was by P. beating broken and he the P. & his other wife so much hurt so that he has suffered great pain and Confinement & hath been greatly Chargeable to him the Off in endeavouring to recover him to soundness which hath not as yet been done by which the Off hath lost the Service of said Cesar & hath been at great Cost for Surgeons &c. and also the Off hath often Called upon the Def. to make reparation for the Injury done to his the R.P.'s Servant & to Satisfy the R.P.'s Costs & Trouble yet the Def. hath refused and still doth refuse to make any the least Satisfaction therefor by which the Off is Damaged in a sum of £25000 &c. lawful money & thereof & for that he brings this Suit fail not but make due return Dated at Wallingford 16th Day of December 1779. Oliver Stanley Just Peace Wallingford December the 16th 1779 Thine I Read this writ in the meeting of the within named Def. Seth Harbrops Cook Constable of Wallingford New Haven Adj. County Court Day Last Tuesday 1779 and now the Def. in Quest says the Off declaration and Matter therein contained are in sufficient by Law Judg. &c. Leavenworth Def.
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