Trial docket, Inferior Court for People of Color : records, 1813-1827 / [Inferior Court of Chatham County].

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Trial docket, Inferior Court for People of Color : records, 1813-1827 / [Inferior Court of Chatham County].

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The trial docket contains the minutes of the trials of people of color from June, 1813-June 1827, for the Inferior Court of Chatham County, Georgia. The 24 cases range from burglaries to murders. Nineteen of the cases involve slaves, two involve freedmen, and three have individuals of unknown status. (Cont.) This volume also contains a dead docket of the Superior Court of Georgia for the years 1816-1821 (located at the back of the volume). The dead docket lists the names of cases by counties.

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Georgia. Inferior Court (Chatham County)

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For several decades after the American Revolution (1775-1783), Georgia was the only state that did not have a supreme court to review the decisions made by the trial courts. Until then, the courts were divided regionally. The Supreme Court was not established until 1845. George Walton (c.1749-1804) served in many political roles in Georgia during and after the Revolutionary War. He was elected to the Provincial Congress and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776 where he was one o...