Title
Trial Book, Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia, 1768
Description
This trial book shows the absence of George Mason IV, a presiding Justice of the Peace, in a court case involving the public acknowledgment of the ages of enslaved children, possibly for the purpose of reinforcing their rightless state or documenting personal details in the event they became "manumitted slaves."
Source
Fairfax Minute Book, 1768. Page 198, "July 17, 1769."