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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
John Beverly (1744-1811)
Andover
Biography: Youngest son, enlisted in the 1760 War and lost both feet due to frostbite. Frequent petitioner for relief from town and state. Andover Selectmen in 1775 advertised against trusting him.
Comments: ECCP Reimbursed for Travel: 40 miles; Attendance: 5 days 0-13-6 SCJ Nov 1771 Reimbursed for Travel: 30 miles Attendance 2 days 0-7-6 Other witnesses testified he was not to be trusted.
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Summonsed and ReimbursedSources
- Dated September 21, 1771. Summons to September ECCP to Samuel Holton, Physician, Danvers, Timothy Fuller gentleman, Middleton and John Beverly, Laborer, Andover.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated October 30, 1771. Summons to SCJ November 1771 held in Salem. Sixteen names, five towns.
Signatures on reverse
Timothy Fuller Gentleman
Primus a negro man living with John Flint all of Middleton in the County of Essex.
T. Russell & M. Russell, E. Hirchcom all of Reading;
Tamar,
J. Beverly
S. Poor &
C.Furbush all of Andover;
R. Thomas,
A. Smith ,
B.Guilford &
A.Putnam all of Danvers;
M. Hart of Lynn;
P. Chandler & J. Bryant.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated Nov. 12, 1771. Jonathan Holt, Jr. swon, written testimony that John Beverly claimed in 1770 to have horses and "bought an Irish man out of Charleston jail" but Holt did not believe him.
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- From SCJ Ipswich June 1772 files for Casar Vs. Taylor. Clerk's tally of costs for ECCP September 1771 costs.
- Dated June 15, 1772 Summons to SCJ June 1772 for John Beverly, Andover &
Nathan Brown,Salem
Ephraim Shelden, Lynn
Moses Hart, Lynn &
Charles Furbush, Andover
Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.
- Dated March 28, 1775. Andover Selectmen advertisement warning that John Beverly is a "Person of Bad Character."
Citation: Andover Selectmen, Essex Gazette, Salem MA, Vol. VII, Issue 348, page 3.