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@connecticut_state_library:organization {location: @new_haven, type: "state library"}
@state_of_connecticut:organization {type: "government"}
@new_haven_superior_court:organization {location: @new_haven, type: "court"}
@cheshire:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@st_christopher:place {type: "island"}
@enfield:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@stephens:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@hampton:person {status: "free Negro", origin: @st_christopher, ethnicity: "African American"}
@john_martin:person {role: "defendant"}
@samuel_clark:person {role: "defendant"}
@samuel_smith:person {role: "state deputy"}
@charles_chauncey:person {role: "judge"}
@james_hillhouse:person {role: "assistant"}
@john_peck_jr:person {role: "prosecutor"}
@john_spencer:person {}
@morton_harrison:person {}
@mary_tyler_thomas:person {}
@bristol_joel_dres:person {}
@bennet_rice:person {}
@selden_spencer:person {}
@thomas_bristol:person {}
@beni_rice:person {}
@eliz_conifer_bennett:person {}
@thos_butler:person {}
@mary_tyler_nathan_turner:person {}
@alice_sperry:person {}
@john_henry:person {}
@james_bunker:person {role: "assistant judge"}
@hampton_vs_martin_clark_case:event {plaintiff: @hampton, defendants: [@john_martin, @samuel_clark], type: "Assault and battery"}
@hampton_vs_martin_clark_collection:document {title: "Hampton vs. Martin & Clark Legal Documents Collection", creator: [@samuel_smith, @charles_chauncey, @james_hillhouse, @john_peck_jr], institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1789_1790, language: "en", subjects: ["Legal documents", "Summons", "Witness testimony", "Assault and battery", "Slave narratives", "African American history", "New Haven County", "Superior Court"], description: "Collection of legal documents related to the case of Hampton, a free Negro of St. Christopher, against John Martin and Samuel Clark for assault and battery. Includes summons, witness documents, and judgments from the New Haven County Superior Court.", place: [@cheshire, @new_haven, @st_christopher]}
@file_rg003_judgment_003:document {type: "image", ocr_text: "To John Spencer, Morton Harrison, Mary Tyler Thomas, Bristol Joel Dres, Bennet Rice, all of Cheshire in New Haven County. ... Cheshire Augt 9th 1790 John Peck Jr pro pr"}
@summons_003:event -> summons -> [@john_spencer, @morton_harrison, @mary_tyler_thomas, @bristol_joel_dres, @bennet_rice] {date: @date_1790_08_09, location: @new_haven, issued_by: @state_of_connecticut, case: @hampton_vs_martin_clark_case}
@file_rg003_judgment_004:document {type: "image", ocr_text: "Cheshire Nov. 20th 1799 ... Selden Spencer ... Thomas Bristol and Beni Rice"}
@summons_004:event -> summons -> [@selden_spencer, @thomas_bristol, @beni_rice] {date: @date_1799_11_20, location: @cheshire, issued_by: @state_of_connecticut}
@file_rg003_judgment_005:document {type: "image", ocr_text: "To Mr. Eliz Conifer Bennett & Thos Butler Mary Tyler Nathan Turner Alice Sperry ... N. Haven Augt 5, 1790 James Hillhouse Assistant"}
@summons_005:event -> summons -> [@eliz_conifer_bennett, @thos_butler, @mary_tyler_nathan_turner, @alice_sperry] {date: @date_1790_08_05, location: @new_haven, issued_by: @james_hillhouse, case: @hampton_vs_martin_clark_case}
@file_rg003_judgment_006:document {type: "image", ocr_text: "Hampden Nego John Martin Subpoena ... town of blythville Pa ... Sept 10 ... John Henry"}
@subpoena_006:event -> subpoenas -> @john_martin {date: @date_179?, location: @blythville_pa, issued_by: @state_of_connecticut}
@file_rg003_judgment_007:document {type: "image", ocr_text: "To the Honorable Samuel Smith & his Deputy ... Summoned John Martin & Samuel Clark ... New Haven Novr 3 1789 ... Charles Chauncey Judge ... James Bunker Judge Asst"}
@summons_007:event -> summons -> [@john_martin, @samuel_clark] {date: @date_1789_11_03, location: @new_haven, issued_by: @state_of_connecticut, case: @hampton_vs_martin_clark_case}
@hampton_vs_martin_clark_collection -> includes -> [@file_rg003_judgment_003, @file_rg003_judgment_004, @file_rg003_judgment_005, @file_rg003_judgment_006, @file_rg003_judgment_007]To John Spencer, Morton Harrison, Mary Tyler Thomas, Bristol Joel Dres, Bennet Rice, all of Cheshire in New Haven County. You are hereby commanded by authority of the State of Connecticut to make your personal appearance before the Superior Court now sitting in New Haven on Monday, 9th day of August instant at 11 o'clock forenoon there to give evidence of what you know in a cause between Samuel Clark of John Martin Wm Law and Hampton Negro as parties. Hearing fail not but due returns make on Penalty of Law. So any indifferent person to serve and return. Cheshire Augt 9th 1790 John Peck Jr pro pr
Cheshire Nov. 20th 1799 Then I read the within summons in the hearing of the within name? Selden Spencer Left Jon to Hall an Indifferant person Cheshire taught 7th 1790 then I read the within summons in the hearing of the within name, Thomas Bristol and Beni Rice Left Precis Holtskiff Indifferant person 3 3 6 6 8 8 6 6 7 9/6 1.2 3 7/5 4 7/6 7/10
To Mr. Eliz Conifer Bennett & Thos Butler Mary Tyler Nathan Turner Alice Sperry You are hereby required to appear before the Sup Court now sitting here that you appear on the 9th day of July Instant there & there to testify what you know in a Cause where in Nampton is P.P. at Mc Norton &c Esq. N. Haven Augt 5, 1790 James Hillhouse Assistant
Hampden Nego John Martin Subpoena Now being day 5th year then subpoena'd the town of blythville Pa and then Sept 10 they order John Henry 13th
To the Honorable Samuel Smith & his Deputy or other Constable of Cheshire within New Haven County. Gentlemen: By Authority of the State of Connecticut you are hereby Summoned John Martin & Samuel Clark both of Enfield & Stephens before the County Court to be held at New Haven on the 21st day of November Instant then & there to answer with Hampton a free Negro of St. Christopher who being a Minor under the age of Twenty One Years, Tuesday last Guardian McLane of St. Christopher In an Action of Assault & Battery against the Defendant that at said New Haven on or about the 21st day of Oct last the Defendant with force & arms made an Assault on the Body of the Plaintiff and with such force & arms did then & there beat woman I know the Plaintiff and did then & there & continue of his just & only from 2 O'Clock & this day without Right against the Plaintiff and to the damage of the Plaintiff Hundred Pounds. For which I shall & must the Plaintiff sue. New Haven Novr 3 1789 Samuel Smith State Deputy Charles Chauncey Judge of the Superior Court Leavenworth Esq Propr 290 Dwyer & Princeton Jud Charles Chauncey New Haven County St. Christopher Novr 6 1789 Then I read that that in the hearing of the witness named John Martin & Samuel Clark Jas 6/1 Jud James Bunker Judge Asst
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