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 19, 1791 Memorial of John Mather, arguing that the Court should find a copartnery existed with Alexander Cunnison and remit the interlocutor which absolved him from liability