This document records enslaved persons or free people of colour. It contains the historical language of enslavement as written by the parties and clerks of the court; that language is presented as the document's own, as evidence, and is not the voice of this archive.
Abstract
January 26, 1797 Petition of Robert Dunmore asking the Court to assoilzie him from this action, against the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor finding him liable for debts alleged to be due to Kendal and Johnstone
