A Guide to the Sussex County (Va.) Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of Sinner, a Negro Slave, Sussex County,
1754 May 22 Sussex County (Va.) Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of Sinner, a Negro Slave, Sussex County, 1754 May 22
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Sussex County (Va.) Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of Sinner, a Negro Slave, Sussex County, 1754 May 22, Local
government records collection, Sussex County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219.
Acquisition Information
This item came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer from Sussex County (Va.) Circuit Court when the original document
was loaned for conservation.
Sussex County was named for the English county, and was formed from Surry County in 1753.
In 1748 the General Assembly passed "An Act directing the Trial of Slaves committing Capital Crimes, and for the more effectual
Punishing Conspiracies and Insurrections of, and for the better Government of, Negroes, Mulattoes, and Indians, Bond or Free."
Sussex County (Va.) Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the Trial of Sinner, a Negro Slave, Sussex County, 1754 May 22. The
document provides for the establishment of a commission to try a slave accused of murder. The slave was the property of John
Leath of Sussex County. He was accused of insurrection and plotting and conspiring the murder of Robin, a slave owned by John
Smith of Sussex County.