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Negroe Jude you are to be carried to the Gaol from whence you came and there to be kept till friday weak at which time you are to be taken from thence to the place of Execution or Gallows where you are to be hanged till you are dead and then your Body Burnt to ashes.

The Call of the Court at the Courthouse, this 19th day of January 1787

Present: Wm. Terrell, John Wingfield, Henry Mounger, esquires.

State v. Negro Jude

The Following Jury Sworn:

Joseph Cook

John Kimbrough

Joseph Henderson

Thomas Stark

Humphery Ballard

John Edwards

Ruben Dejernett

We the Jury find a Negro Woman Named Jude the property of John Mills Guilty of What she stands charged with.

(Signed) Joseph Cook, Foreman.

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