Title: Petition of Charles H. Liebermann, 28 June 1862
Date: June 28, 1862
Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 520, Reel 5. The original document is held in the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, 1775–1978, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 217.6.5. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4644616 / MLR Number A1 347 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).
Civil War Washington ID: cww.00782
TEI/XML: cww.00782.xml
PETITION.
To the Commissioners under the act of Congress approved the 16th of April, 1862, entitled "An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia."
Your Petitioner,
Charles H. Liebermann
of
Washington D.C.
by this his petition in writing, represents
and states, that he is a person loyal to the
United States, who, at the time of the passage of the said act of Congress, held
a claim to service or labor against a certain negro man
being a person of African descent of the name of
Daniel Jones
for and during the life of said
a term of years and that by said act of Congress
said
Daniel Jones was discharged and freed of and from
all claim of your petitioner to such service or labor; that at the time of said
discharge said
Daniel Jones was of the age of Twenty five years and nine months and of the
personal description following:(1)
About five feet four inches high, stout built, black
complexion, with a considerable and quite distinct scar under his right
eye.
That your petitioner acquired his claim to the aforesaid service or labor of said Daniel Jones in manner following:(2) By purchase from Ann Payne of the District of Columbia, on the 6th day of July A. D. 1849, for a term of years, namely, fifteen years, for the sum of two hundred dollars, as will now fully appear by the instrument of writing herewith.
That your petitioner's claim to the service or labor of said Daniel Jones was, at the time of said discharge therefrom, of the value of Two hundred twenty five dollars ($225.) in money.(3) A few weeks before the passage of the Emancipation Law, I was offered Two hundred dollars in cash for the remainder of Jones' term of service, which I declined regarding his said service for two and a quarter years as worth Two hundred and twenty five dollars.
Your petitioner hereby declares that he bears true and faithful allegiance to the Government of the United States, and that he has not borne arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid or comfort thereto.
And your petitioner further states and alleges, that he has not brought said Daniel Jones into the District of Columbia since the passage of said act of Congress; and that, at the time of the passage thereof, said Daniel Jones was held to service or labor therein under and by virtue of your petitioner's claim to such service or labor.
Your petitioner further states and alleges, that his said claim to the service or labor of said Daniel Jones does not originate in or by virtue of any transfer heretofore made by any person who has in any manner aided or sustained the present rebellion against the Government of the United States.
And your petitioner prays the said Commissioners to investigate and determine the validity of his said claim to the service or labor of said Daniel Jones herein above set forth; and if the same be found to be valid, that they appraise and apportion the value of said claim in money, and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, in conformity to the provisions of said act of Congress.
Charles H. Lierbermann
to
Charles H. Lierbermann
Know all men by these presents, that I, Ann Payne, widow of Jacob Payne deceased of the County of Washington in the District of Columbia, in virtue of the power and authority granted to me in the last will and testament of the said Jacob Payne, as will be found recorded in the office of the Registrar of Wills for said County, and also as administrator on the said deceased estate, for the consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars current money, to me on hand paid by Charles H. Lieberman of the City of Washington in said County, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted bargained, sold, and delivered, and by these presents do hereby grant, bargain, sell and deliver unto the said Charles H. Lieberman my servant boy, Daniel Jones, aged thirteen years, the first day of July instant, for a terms of years, to wit until he the said Daniel arrives at the age of twenty eight years and it being, hereby well understood that in case the said Charles H. Lieberman may hereafter determine to sell the time of the said Daniel, he shall not sell him at a greater distance from the District of Columbia than fifteen miles, yet if the said Charles Lieberman shall within the time for which the said Daniel is sold, remove from the District of Columbia, there is nothing herein to be understood as prohibiting him from taking the said Daniel with him. Which said servant Daniel, I will warrant and defend to the said Charles Lieberman, his executors, administrators, and assigns, (for the aforesaid period of time and under the aforesaid restrictions) against me, my executors and administrators and against ever other person or persons whatsoever or whomsoever.
In witness whereof, I have herewith set my hand and affixed my seal, this sixth day of July in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and forty nine (1849).
her X mark Ann Payne seal
In presence of,
Lewis Carberry
B Sewalt
County of Washington, to wit.
On this sixth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty nine, before me on of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, appears Ann Payne, the widow of Jacob Payne deceased, and acknowledges the foregoing instrument of writing, hereunto annexed to be her act and deed, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and the act of Assembly in such case made and provided.
Witness my hand,
Lewis Carbery, J. Peace
[Form of the Oath for the Verification of the Petition.]
Washington County, ss.
I, Charles H. Liebermann being duly sworn, do depose and say, that all the several matters and things which are set forth and stated in the foregoing petition, as of my own knowledge, are true in substance and in fact; and that all the several other matters and things therein set forth and stated, as from the information of others, I believe to be true in substance and in fact.
Charles H. Lieberman
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of June A. D. 1862.
J. F. Brown (L. S.)
Alderman & ex officio J.P.
Charles H. Liebermann
Note (1.)-- Here describe the person, so as to identify him or her; and if there be more than one slave, describe each one separately.
Note (2.)-- Here state how the claim was acquired, when, from whom, and for what price or consideration; and, if held under any written evidence of title, make exhibit thereof, or refer to the public record where the same may be found.
Note (3.)-- Here state such facts, if any there be, touching the value of the petitioner's claim to the service or labor of the person, as may enhance the same, and also such facts, if any, touching the moral, mental, and bodily infirmities or defects of said person, as impair the value of the petitioner's claim to such service or labor, and conclude such statement with an averment that the petitioner knows of no other infirmities or defects of said person which impair the value of petitioner's claim to such service or labor, and that he believes none other to exist. If the petitioner specify no such infirmity or defect, then his statement touching the value of his claim should conclude with an averment that he has no knowledge of any such infirmity or defect.
