Document 1:

Title: Petition of John Jackson, 19 July 1862

Date: July 19, 1862

Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 433, Reel 3. The original document is held in the Records of the District Courts of the United States, 1685–2004, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 21. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4314547 / MLR Number NC-2 33 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).

Document 2:

Title: Evidence Relating to the Petition of John Jackson, 19 July 1862

Date: July 19, 1862

Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 520, Reel 6. 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.01065

TEI/XML: cww.01065.xml

 
July 19th 1862.
District of Columbia
County of Washington
To wit:
To Jno. A. Smith Esq.​ Clerk
Respected Sir:

Henry Chatham of Alexandria Va. having claim to the service or labor of the undersigned & having refused or failed to file in your office the statement in writing or Schedule provided for in the 9th Section of the act entitled an "Act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia approved April 16, 1862," You will please file the annexed Schedule in pursuance of an act Supplementary to the above recited act approved July 12th 1862. And your petitioner was residing in the District of Columbia before the 16th of April 1862 with consent of his master

Your obt​ Sevt​

John Jackson
by his [Attorney?]
J. H. Johnson
Age about 48 Years—color black name John Jackson
 
paid
John Jackson
Filed 19th July 1862
Recorded in Manumission Record No. 2 folio 62—
Cert.​ given—Idf'd​ by Jno. H. Johnson 19th July 1862.
Washington City July 19, 1862

The Commissioners being satisfied on the testimony of James Gibson and John H. Johnson of the truth of the statement in the within schedule, have ordered the same to be reported to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.


Wm. R. Woodward
Clerk
 
John Jackson servant of James Chatham
July 19.
Henry Gibson. We have been hiring John Jackson from Henry Chatham of Alexandria for three years & paid [him?] wages. servant was here 16 Apl 1862
We hired him on farm in Alx Co. when war broke out and we were afraid soldiers would get him we brought servant with us to Wash. Master knew it—
John H. Johnson—know by reputation that servant belongs to Hy Cheatham—I am frequently at Gibsons restaurant where servant lives—[and?] [heard?] that servant was Cheatham's
Have seen Cheatham [illegible] frequently saw him yesterday
 
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Henry Cheatham's
servant
John Jackson
July 19, 1862
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