Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes this legal document regarding the case of Charles L. Perrie v. Thomas C. Scott.
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1812
Location: I-KeatleyG-1971-1
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
February 19, 1812
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to Independent Gist and offers legal counsel about the purchase of land. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-42
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
June 23, 1812
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes this legal document regarding the case of Thomas Gist v. William Durbin, Jr. Taney represents the prosecution.
Location: I-BeachW-1971-3
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
July 23, 1812
Lawyer Roger Brooke Taney (Class of 1795) writes to Clotworthy Birnie, offering legal advice regarding the latter's arrest for assault. Transcript included.
Location: I-BeachL-1971-2
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
September 19, 1812
This affidavit involves the case of Thomas P. Wilson v. Frederick and Ezekiah Linthicum, which is a dispute about a debt owed by the late Zachariah Linthicum. Roger Brooke Taney serves as the plaintiff's attorney. Transcript included.< /p>
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-35
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
October 23, 1812
This legal document is for the case of John Fenn v. Joshua Plummer. The case, which centers on a land dispute, also involves Richard Fenn and Philip Duvall. Roger Brooke Taney serves as the plaintiff's attorney. Transcript included. ;
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-34
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
November 27, 1812
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney addresses this legal document to the Judges of Frederick County Court regarding the case of Peregrine Warfield v. Jacob Schleich. Taney represents the prosecution.
Location: I-BeachW-1971-3
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
January 13, 1813
Lawyer and banker Roger Brooke Taney writes to an unspecified Mr. Pringle, concerning a legal case and attending court.
Location: I-Friends-1983-15
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
January 14, 1813
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to Clotworthy Birnie with legal advice about Birnie's appeal of the Levy Court's decision regarding damages from road construction. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-39
Subject: Business and Industry, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
January 27, 1813
This affidavit involves the case of Alexander Warfield v. William W. King and Charles Miles, which is a dispute about a debt owed to the late John W. Warfield. Roger Brooke Taney serves as the plaintiff's attorney. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-36
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
May 19, 1813
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to Independent Gist and provides legal advice on Gist's suit against Wells regarding the sale of an "unsound" slave. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-42
Subject: Business and Industry, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
July 20, 1814
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to Clotworthy Birnie, a client, telling him that he should arrive to court early because the witnesses in his case have presumably been summoned already.
Location: I-BonisteelR-1954-3
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
December 31, 1814
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to Clotworthy Birnie and discusses the suit against Dehoof as well as the resulting legal costs. While confident that Birnie will ultimately receive compensation, Taney also explains the possibility of settling the suit with a compromise before the February...
Location: I-SpahrB-1964-5
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
1815
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes this note to an unspecified Mr. Schley on the case Eva Danner by Zachariah Danner her next friend v. John Cook and Sarah his wife.
Location: I-KeatleyG-1971-1
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
1815
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes this note to an unspecified Mr. Ritchie on the case David Taney by his next friend Frederick Taney v. Barbara Boyer.
Location: I-KeatleyG-1971-1
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
February 20, 1815 - March 6, 1816
Two legal documents, including an arrest warrant and an affidavit, regarding the case of Samuel Anderson v. Kinsey Gittings. Gittings is accused of assaulting Anderson. Roger Brooke Taney serves as the plaintiff's attorney. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-37
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1800-1819
February 21, 1815
A paper fragment with a note from lawyer Roger Brooke Taney, referring to the case of Romberg v. Krumps.
Location: I-Friends-1983-16
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
January 3, 1816
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes Independent Gist and advises him that, given the circumstances, the legislature would likely not act on a petition about a road where no notice has been given. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-1951-2
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
February 13, 1816
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to Independent Gist and offers legal advice as well as updates on recent cases. "I have brought the suit against Mordecai Gist for the Assault according to your directions," as Taney explains. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-42
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
February 24, 1818
Maryland State Senator and attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to an unknown recipient with instructions regarding deeds for land in Maryland. As Taney explains, "a deed for land in Maryland may be executed by a person resident in Ohio in the following manner..." Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-1955-3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
February 1, 1820
Roger Brooke Taney writes to William Ritchie, Clerk of Court for Frederick County, Maryland, entering judgment of Robert Fulton v. Barnhart Gilbert.
Location: I-BeachL-1971-1
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
August 14, 1820
Two letters, sent together to Arthur Shaaff in Scotland. In the first letter, Maryland State Senator Roger Brooke Taney writes to Arthur Shaaff and informs him about the state of his late father's estate and advises him not to abandon his schooling abroad in Glasgow in order to return home....
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-41
Subject: Economics and Finance, Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
April 11, 1821
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney writes to another lawyer, J. Meredith, and agrees to accept Meredith's friends as a student in his law office. "Your friend will with pleasure be received into my office if he wishes it," as Taney notes. Taney also recommends "Mrs. Kimballs" as "the only good private...
Location: I-PotamkinM-1982-1
Subject: Education, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
November 27, 1822
Lawyer and banker Roger Brooke Taney responds to a client who wants to collect a toll from travelers that ford a river rather than use their tolled bridge. While an "Act of 1818" prohibits such collections, Taney suggests a different solution: "Obstruct[ing] the ford as the law authorize[s] you...
Location: I-AsbellY-2004-8
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
March 5, 1824
Attorney Roger Brooke Taney informs his client, Mrs. Patterson, that she has been served with a legal notice. When Mrs. Patterson returns from a few days in the country, Taney explains that "I will arrange with you the course proper to be taken." Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-1964-6
Subject: Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
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