Case Name: Mercy Hill against William Leddell
Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1783-09
Citations: 1 N.J. (Manumission) 12
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mercy Hill against William Leddell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage
Volume: 1
Pages: 12–13

Head Matter:
September Term, 1783.
Mercy Hill against William Leddell.

Opinion:
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The Court having heard the Teftimony, with iundry Affidavits offered and read, to prote the Truth of the foregoing Allegations, and hating alio heard the Arguments of Counfel on both Hides, and maturely conil-dered thereof, are. unanimoifly rfr pirion, 'i hat the faid Mercy Hill-is entitled to her 1 reedom, and ought not to be held in Slavery ; and do accordingly adjudge and order that the faid Mercy Hill be difeharged and let at Liberty from the laid William Leddell, on Morion of Mr. Morris in behalf of Mercy Hill.