Supreme Court of New Jersey September 15, 1782 (State v. Bainbridge)

: On Habeas Corpus of Negro Nelly.

IT appearing to the Court, and the faid Edmund Bain* bridge conceding, that the laid Negro Nelly was formerly the Property of Edmund Bainbridge, the elder, •f Maidenhead, deceafed, who let Ms Daughter Abigail, *9late the Wife of Thomas Biles, of Bucks County in Pcun-fylvania, deceafed, gave her when very young; that many Years afterwards he made his Will and