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
February 20, 1789 Petition of John Mather asking the Court to alter Lord Swinton's interlocutor, which found no copartnership but allowed wages for clerical service
Appendix
- Proof in the conjoined Actions between John Mather, late of the Island of Jamaica, now Merchant in Hamilton, and Alexander Cunnison, late of said Island, now in Glasgow (July 18, 1786).
