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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783
Daniel Farnham Esq. (1719-1776)
Newburyport
Biography: DANIEL FARNHAM ( 1719-1776). Harvard 173 9. Studied law with Edmund Trowbridge, q.v. Admitted attorney, SCJ, Nov. 1745; barrister, Aug. 1762.
Practiced in Newburyport. Appointed Attorney General for York Co., 1744; Justice of the Peace, Essex Co., 1752. Loyalist in sympathy, but did not go into exile. 10 Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates 364-366.
Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.
Comments: Agreed to pay 5 pounds if Richard Greenleaf did not appeal Casar vs Greenleaf (1773) or make court ordered payment.
Jude vs. Daniel Hale (1769) Attorney for DefendantLewis vs. Dodge (1769) Attorney for original Defendant on Appeal
Casar Hendrick vs. Richard Greenleaf (1773) Attorney for Defendant
Sources
- Wetmore's notes from William Pynchon's notes of arguments re the legality of slavery in English Common Law and Massachusetts law.
Citation: Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. Volume 2. Web Page: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017. http://www.masshist.org/publications/apde2/volume-toc?series=lja&vol=2
- Dated September 28, 1773. Record of original writ and disposition of Casar Hendrick vs. Greenleaf. Hendrick claimed to be wrongfully enslaved as a "molatto". ECCP Jury found for Plaintiff for eighteen pounds money damages and costs.
Citation: Casear vs Greenleaf Esq, Essex County Court of Common Pleas, September 1773, 29.
- Dated October 2, 1773. Recognizance of Greenleaf's debt to Casar of 18 pounds should Greenleaf not appeal.
Citation: Casear vs Greenleaf Esq, Essex County Court of Common Pleas, September 1773, 29.