Case of Clark

In obedience to a writ of habeas corpus, issued, by the Knox Circuit Court, G. W. Johnston brought before that Court the body of Mary Clark, (a woman of colour,) said to be illegally detained by him; and assigned as the cause of her detention, that she was his servant by indenture, executed at Vincennes in this state, on the 24th of October, 1816: which indenture is set out in the return, regularly executed and acknow*123iedged, by which the said Mary (being a free woman)- voluntarily bound herself to serve him as an indented servant and house maid for 20 years. This cause of detention was deemed…