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Dolly vs John Young. Cover page

Petition Date

July 31, 1828

Earliest Record Date

July 31, 1828

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • St. Louis (Mo.)
  • Galena (Ill.)
  • Wisconsin

People

  • Dolly (Petitioner)
  • Young, John (Defendant)
  • Evans, James (Attorney petitioner)
  • Strother, George (Attorney petitioner)
  • McGirk, Isaac (Attorney defendant)
 

Box 117 Folder

St Louis Circuit Court

Case Files

July Term 1828, No. 7

Dolly, a free woman of color vs John Young

Trespass; Assault & Battery; False Imprisonment

Attorneys: Plaintiff - James Evans & George Strother

Defendant - McGirk, Isaac C.

Note: Freedom suit, plaintiff, about 40, claimed defendant forcibly removed her to Feever River mines [now Galena River] in Northwest Territory [now Galena, IL & southwest Wisconsin], holding her there for 6 months. Writ of habeas corpus to produce Dolly included.

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Dolly vs John Young. Cover page.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0017.001

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