Articles Tagged: Rodney’s Notes

Rodney’s Notes TUBMAN WRIGHT v. WILLIAM TOWNSEND. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November, 1804. Bayard [for plaintiff]. Cooper [for defendant]. Elias Wright. June 6, 1803, I was carting with my brother’s oxen. William Townsend said it was his land; if I did not go off he’d shoot me and the oxen. I […]

Rodney’s Notes GEORGE McCALL’S LESSEE v. SARAH LOCKERMAN and JOSEPH. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Kent County. December 4, 1801. Ridgely [for plaintiff]. Rodney, Read, Vandyke [for defendant]. Ridgely, for plaintiff, opened the cause on the part of plaintiff. The question for jury is location. G. Read for defendant. Our title has received heretofore […]

Rodney’s Notes OWEN O’DAY v. NEHEMIAH RYLEY. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November 23, 1802. Trespass vi et armis, brought to April, 1800. Horsey [for plaintiff]. Cooper [for defendant]. Sally Boyce. Ryley came to Owen O’Day’s, broke open the smoke-house, etc., and took out the goods (this Fall three years back) after […]

Rodney’s Notes NIMROD MAXWELL v. JAMES MILLECHOPS. Court of Common Pleas Court of Delaware, Kent County. May, 1804. H. Ridgely, Vandyke [for plaintiff]. Bayard, Clayton [for defendant]. In this cause the plaintiff’s counsel offered to prove and did prove the handwriting of Levi Lockwood, a witness to a note, who, it was proved, had resided […]

Rodney’s Notes BELLACH qui tam v. ENOCK GABB. Supreme Court of Delaware. Undated. Qui tam for exporting Negro James, for the penalty of £100 under the Act of 1789, [2 Del. Cas.Laws] 942. Benjamin Stout, special bail. Ridgely, Hall [for plaintiffs]. Fisher, Clayton [for defendant]. Doctor J. Sykes. I saw Negro James in Gabb’s possession. […]

Rodney’s Notes CHARLES EVANS v. DAVID NEVIN and CHARLES ANDERSON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, New Castle County. December 19, 1796. Case, alias nuisance for stopping a water course. Special pleas filed: viz, non culpa and license by deed to erect a dam across the rivulet mentioned, which deed is lost or in possession […]

Rodney’s Notes STATE v. NEGRO ANTHONY, the Slave of Nancy Young. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Sussex County. November 19, 1802. John Campbel. In the summer my wife had the fever and ague. Reduced her very low. She told me on her death-bed, told me that she wanted me to send for Nathan Young […]

Rodney’s Notes.[*] EDWARD and WILLIAM JOY v. SAMUEL MARSHAL. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Kent County. May 13, 1797. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 198; Clayton’s Notebook, 22. Bayard [for plaintiffs]. Miller [for defendant]. June 24, 1796, the contract made for 275 bushels of wheat at 18/6 per 60 lbs. […]

Rodney’s Notes.[*] WEIGHT’S LESSEE v. JEREMIAH CANNON et al. High Court of Errors and Appeals of Delaware. August, 1796. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 240; Bayard’s Notebook, 08. Ejectment. Rule to show cause why William Sluby and John Smith shall not be admitted as defendants instead of Jeremiah Cannon. J. […]

Rodney’s Notes STATE v. JOHN R. PHILLIPS. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, New Castle County. December 15, 1803. Indictment for knowingly receiving an illegal vote from John Crosson, Jr., October 5, 1802, as inspector of Mill Creek. Vandyke [for State]. George Read [for defendant]. Joseph Israel, Esq., sworn. John R. P. acted as inspector. […]

Rodney’s Notes STATE v. CHARLES LOADNUM. Court of Oyer and Terminer of Delaware, Dover. May 15, 1798. Indictment for the murder of Jacob Loadnum, the slave of Joseph David. Ridgely [for State]. Whitby. Twenty-seventh of last March two of his people were at work near the stable hauling manure. I requested my horse, and he […]

Rodney’s Notes JOB HARVEY v. JOHN McCLINTOCK. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, New Castle County. May, 1795. Trespass. Non culpa and liberum tenementum. Vandyke [for plaintiff]. Bayard [for defendant]. Bayard. March 18, 1785, deed from Penns to Jonathan Dawes. July 12, 1785, deed from Jonathan Dawes and wife to Job Harvey. [2] Del. Laws […]

Rodney’s Notes WILLIAM and TRAFENIA TATMAN’S LESSEE v. ISAAC POLK, tenant, ELIJAH ADAMS and WIFE, co-defendants. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November 22, 1802. Page 172 Ejectment to April, 1800. Bayard, Horsey [for plaintiffs]. Vandyke, Wilson [for defendants]. October 22, 1756. Survey of Venture for Benjamin Wynklock and takes in part of […]

Rodney’s Notes JAMES REED v. THOMAS DEHORTY Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Kent County. May 15, 1804. Clayton, Bassett [for plaintiff]. H. Ridgely [for defendant]. Page 215 Sidney Reed. Thomas D. and his hired hand tore down the garden and kitchen and took them off, fenced in and tilled the ground. Filled up the […]

Rodney’s Notes ELI MENDENHALL v. JACOB BROOM. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, New Castle County. May, 1801. Page 148 Finney, Bayard, Rodney [for plaintiff], G. Read, Vandyke [for defendant]. Thomas Mendenhall, to prove handwriting of Jacob Broom. Schooner sailed between the 10th and 20th March, 1796. She has been considered as lost. One year […]

Rodney’s Notes.[*] NEGRO LONDON v. ANNANIAS HUDSON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Georgetown. April, 1801. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 368. Page 142 Ridgely, Hall [for plaintiff]. Wilson, Vining [for defendant]. Deposition of one Gray taken before Postley, Esq., in Maryland. Objected to by defendant’s counsel, there being no […]

Rodney’s Notes.[†] HENRY WINGATE v. JOSEPH NELSON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. April, 1798. [†] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 195. Ridgely, Wilson [for plaintiff]. Peery, Miller [for defendant]. Page 99 Action brought 1796. Trespass for cutting pine and oak trees on a tract called Elbow Room. Warrant […]

Rodney’s Notes JOHN CLARK, Trustee of Land Office, v. BRIAN SUNEY, Terre-tenant, etc. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Kent County. May, 1803. Scire facias on a mortgage, May 2, 751, for £26 to Samuel Howel. Vandyke [for plaintiff]. Bayard, Fisher [for defendant]. Bayard. Land has changed owners, until now it has come into the […]

Rodney’s Notes STATE v. JOHN ADAMS. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Sussex County. April 30, 1804. Vandyke [for State]. Bayard, Horsey, Robinson [for defendant]. Vandyke read indictment and administration account, rule of reference etc. Report dated November 4, 1802. Joseph Haslet, one of the referees. In November, 1802, at Concord, in Broad Creek, at […]

Rodney’s Notes DAVID NIVIN’S LESSEE v. ADAM DIEHL and others, Tenants. Court of Common Pleas Court of Delaware, New Castle County. May 24, 1803. G. Read, Vandyke[1] [for plaintiff]. Rodney, Bayard [for defendants]. [1] The manuscript reads “Bayard.” Pretensions and plots returned. G. Read. The title on the part of the plaintiff is founded on […]