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Domini seventeen hundred and ninety, come here again the parties aforesaid by their attornies aforesaid; and the said Elisha Lackland by his Attorney aforesaid declares in the plea aforesaid against the aforesaid Lakin Dorsey in manner and form following to wit: - Washington County, to wit; Leakin Dorsey late of the County of Washington was attached to answer Elisha Lackland of a plea of Trespass upon the case and so forth. Whereupon the said Elisha by John Thomson Mason his attorney complains that whereas on the tenth day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine at the County of Washington aforesaid a certain conversation was had and moved between the said Leakin and him the said Elisha of and concerning the purchasing of a certain negro man named Will, by him the said Elisha of him the said Leakin which said Negro he the said Lakin then and there had in possession, and upon the conversation aforesaid the said Leaking then and there falsely, fradulently and deceitfully asserety and affirmed to the said Elisha, that the aforesaid Negro man named Will then and there in the possession of the said Leakin was the proper true and Lawfull slave of him the said Leakin, which said assertion and affirmation of him the said Leakin by him then and there so made he the said Elisha believing to be true, he the said Elisha afterwards, to wit, the same day and year first aforesaid at the County aforesaid bought of the said Leakin the said Negro man named Will for a great sum of money to wit for the sum of one hundred pounds Current money to the said Leakin by him the said Elisha then and there in hand paid, and thereupon the said Lakin did actually sell and deliver the said negro man named Will to the said Elisha as and for a Slave during the life of him the said Will, when in truth and in fact the said Negro man named Will at the said time of the said assertion and affirmation of the said Leakin as aforesaid made, and at the time of selling him and delivering in manner aforesaid was not a Slave but was a freeman, to wit, at the County of Washington aforesaid and so the said Elisha saith that the said Leakin him