APPENDIX.

by Solomon Northup

　　APPENDIX.

　　A.— Page 291.CHAP. 375.

　　An act more effectually to protect the free citizens of this Statefrom being kidnapped, or reduced to Slavery.[Passed May 14, 1840.]The People of the State of New- York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :§ 1. Whenever the Governor of this State shall receiveinformation satisfactory to him that any free citizen or anyinhabitant of this State has been kidnapped or transportedaway out of this State, inro any other State or Territory of theUnited States, for the purpose of being there held in slavery ; orthat such free citizen or inhabitant is wrongfully seized, im-prisoned or held in slavery in any of the States or Territoriesof the United States, on the allegation or pretence that sucha person is a slave, or by color of any usage or rule of lawprevailing in such State or Territory, is deemed or taken to boa slave, or not entitled of right to the personal liberty belonging to a citizen ; it shall be the duty of the said Governor to

　　324: TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE.take such measures as he shall deem necessary to procure suchperson to be restored to his liberty and returned to this State.The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint and employ suchagent or agents as he shall deem necessary to effect the restoration and return of such person ; and shall furnish the said agent■with such credentials and instructions as will be likely to accomplish the object of his appointment. The Governor maydetermine the compensation to be allowed to such agent for hisservices besides his necessary expenses.§ 2. Such agent shall proceed to collect the proper proof toestablish the right of such person to his freedom, and shall per-form such journeys, take such measures, institute and procureto be prosecuted such legal proceedings, under the direction ofthe Governor, as shall be necessary to procure such person tobe restored to his liberty and returned to this State.§ 3. The accounts for all services and expenses incurred incarrying this act into effect shall be audited by the Comptroller,and paid by the Treasurer on his warrant, out of any moneysin the treasury of this State not otherwise appropriated. TheTreasurer may advance, on the warrant of the Comptroller, tosuch agent, such sum or sums as the Governor shall certify tobe reasonable advances to enable him to accomplish the pur-poses of his appointment, for which advance such agent shallaccount, on the final audit of his warrant.§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

　　APPENDIX. 325B.— Page 292.MEMORIAL OF ANNE.To His Excellency, the Governor of the State of New-York :The memorial of Anne Northup, of the village of GlensFalls, ha the comity of Warren, State aforesaid, respectfullysets forth —That your memorialist, whose maiden name was Anne Hamp-ton, was forty-four years old on the 14th day of March last, andwas married to Solomon Northup, then of Fort Edward, inthe county of Washington and State aforesaid, on the 25th dayof December, A. D. 1828, by Timothy Eddy, then a Justiceof the Peace. That the said Solomon, after such marriage,lived and kept house with your memorialist hi said town until1830, when he removed with his said family to the town ofKingsbury in said county, and remained there about threeyears, and then removed to Saratoga Springs in the Stateaforesaid, and continued to reside in said Saratoga Springs andthe adjoining town until about the year 1841, as near as thetime can be recollected, when the said Solomon started to go tothe city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, sincewhich time your memorialist has never seen her said husband.And your memorialist further states, that in the year 1841she received information by a letter directed to Henry B.Northup, Esq., of Sandy Hill, Washington county, New- York,and post-marked at New-Orleans, that said Solomon had beenkidnapped in Washington, put on board of a vessel, and wasthen in such vessel in New-Orleans, but could not tell how hecame in that situation, nor what his destination was.That your memorialist ever since the last mentioned periodhas been wholly unable to obtain any information of where thesaid Solomon was, until the month of September last, when

　　320 TWELVE TEAKS A SLAVE-another letter was received from the said Solomon, post-markedat Marksville, in the parish of Avoyelles, in the State of Lou-isiana, stating that he was held there as a slave, which state-ment your memorialist believes to be true.That the said Solomon is about forty-five years of age, andnever resided out of the State of New- York, in which State hewas born, until the time he went to Washington city, as beforestated. That the said Solomon Northup is a free citizen of theState of New-York, and is now wrongfully held in slavery, inor near Marksville, in the parish of Avoyelles, in the State ofLouisiana, one of the United States of America, on the allega-tion or pretence that the said Solomon is a slave.And your memorialist further states that Mintus Northup wasthe reputed father of said Solomon, and was a negro, and diedat Fort Edward, on the 22d day of November, 1829; that themother of said Solomon was a mulatto, or three quarters white,and died in the county of Oswego, New-York, some five or sixyears ago, as your memorialist was informed and believes, andnever was a slave.That your memorialist and her family are poor and whollyunable to pay or sustain any portion of the expenses of restor-ing the said Solomon to his freedom.Your excellency is entreated to employ such agent or agentsas shall be deemed necessary to effect the restoration and returnof said Solomon Northup, in pursuance of an act of the Legis-lature of the State of New-York, passed May 14th, 1840,entitled " An act more effectually to protect the free citizens ofthis State from being kidnappd or reduced to slavery." Andyour memorialist will ever pray.(Signed,) ANNE NORTHUP.Dated November 19, 1852.

　　APPENDIX. 327 State of New-York : Washington county, ss. Anne Northup, of the village of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren, in said State, being duly sworn, doth depose and say that she signed the above memorial, and that the state- ments therein con tamed are true. (Signed,) . ANNE NORTHUP. Subscribed and sworn before me this 19th November, 1852. Charles Hughes, Justice Peace. We recommend that the Governor appoint Henry B. Northup,of the village of Sandy Hill, Washington county, New-York,as one of the agents to procure the restoration and returnof Solomon Northup, named in the foregoing memorial ofAnne Northup.Dated at Sandy Hill, Washington Ob., N. Y.,November 20, 1852. (Signed.)peter holbrook, daxiel sweet,b. f. hoag, almon clark,charles hughes, bexjamix ferris,e. d. baker, josiah h. brownoeville clark.State of New-York :Washington County, ss :Josiah Hand, of the village of Sandy Hill, in said county, be-ing duly sworn, says, he is fifty-seven years old, and was borain said village, and has always resided there ; that he hasknown Mintus Northup and his son Solomon, named in the an-nexed memorial of Anne Northup, since previous to the year1816 ; that Mintus Northup then, and until the time of his death,cultivated a farm in the towns of Kingsbury and Port Edward,from the time deponent first knew him until he died ; that saidMintus and his wife, the mother of said Solomon Northup,

　　328 TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE.were reported to be free citizens of New-York, and deponent"believes they were so free ; that said Solomon Northup wasborn in said county of Washington, as deponent believes, andwas married Dec. 25th, 1828, in Fort Edward aforesaid, andhis said wife and three children — two daughters and one son —are now living in Glens Falls, Warren county, New- York, andthat the said Solomon Northup always resided in said countyof Washington, and its immediate vicinity, until about 1841,since winch time deponent has not seen him, but deponenthas been credibly informed, and as he verily believes truly,the said Solomon is now wrongfully held as a slave in theState of Louisiana. And deponent further says 'that AnneNorthup, named in the said memorial, is entitled to credit, anddeponent believes the statements contained in her said memo-rial are true. (Signed,) JOSIAH HAND.Subscribed and sworn before me this19th day of November, 1852,Charles Hughes, Justice Peace.State of New-York :Washington county, ss :Timothy Eddy, of Fort Edward, in said county, being dulysworn, says he is now over — years old, and has been a residentof said town more than — years last past, and that he waswell acquainted with Solomon Northup, named in the annexedmemorial of Anne Northup, and with his father, Mintus North-up, who was a negro, — the wife of said Mintus was a mulattowoman ; that said Mintus Northup and his said wife and family,two sons, Joseph and Solomon, resided in said town of FortEdward for several years before the year 1828, and said Min-tus died in said town A. D. 1829, as deponent believes. Anddeponent further says that he was a Justice of the Peace icsaid town in the year 1828, and as such Justice of the Peace,he, on the 25th day of Dec'r, 1828, joined the said Solomon

　　APPENDIX. 329Northup in marriage with Anne Hampton, who is the sameperson who has subscribed the annexed memorial. And depo-nent expressly says, that said Solomon was a free citizen ofthe State of New-York, and always lived in said State, untilabout the year A. D. 1840, since which time deponent has notseen him, but has recently been informed, and as deponent be-lieves truly, that said Solomon Northup is wrongfully held inslavery hi or near Marksville, hi the parish of Avoyelles, hi theState of Louisiana. And deponent further says, that said Min-tus Northup was nearly sixty years old at the time of his death,and was, for more than thirty years next prior to his death, afree citizen of the State of New-York.And this deponent further says, that Anne Northup, the wifeof said Solomon Northup, is of good character and reputation,and her statements, as contained in the memorial hereto annexed,are entitled to full credit.(Signed,) TIMOTHY EDDY.Subscribed and sworn before me this19th day of November, 1852,Tim'y Stoughton, Justice.State of New-York :Washington Comity, ss :Henry B. Northup, of the village of Sandy Hill, in saidcounty, being duly sworn, says, that he is forty-seven years old,and has always lived in said county ; that he knew MintusNorthup, named hi the annexed memorial, from deponent'searliest recollection until the time of his death, which occurredat Fort Edward, hi said comity, in 1829; that deponent knewthe children of said Mintus, viz, Solomon and Joseph; thatthey were both born in the comity of Washington aforesaid, asdeponent believes ; that deponent was well acquainted withsaid Solomon, who is the same person named in the annexedmemorial of Anne Northup, from his childhood ; and that said

　　330 TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE.Solomon always resided in said county of Washington and theadjoining counties until about the year 1841 ; that said Solo-mon could read and write ; that said Solomon and his motherand father were free citizens of the State of New-York ; thatsometime about the year 1841 this deponent received a letterfrom said Solomon, post-marked New-Orleans, stating thatwhile on business at Washington city, he had been kidnapped,and his free papers taken from him, and he was then on boarda vessel, in irons, and was claimed as a slave, and that he didnot know his destination, which the deponent believes to betrue, and he urged this deponent to assist in procuring his restora-tion to freedom ; that deponent has lost or mislaid said letter,and cannot find it ; that deponent has since endeavored to findwhere said Solomon was, but could get no farther trace of himuntil Sept. last, when this deponent ascertained by a letter pur-porting to have been written by the direction of said Solomon,that said Solomon was held and claimed as a slave in or nearMarksville, in the parish of Avoyelles, Louisiana, and that thisdeponent verily believes that such information is true, and thatsaid Solomon is now wrongfully held in slavery at Marksvilleaforesaid. (Signed,) HENRY B. NORTHUP.Subscribed and sworn to before methis 20th day of November, 1852,Charles Hughes, J. P.State of New-York :Washington County, ssNicholas C. Northup, of the village of Sandy Hill, in saidcounty, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he is nowfifty-eight years of age, and has known Solomon Northup, men-tioned in the annexed memorial of Ann Northup, ever since hewas born. And this deponent saith that said Solomon is nowabout forty-five years old, and was born in the county of Wash-

　　ATPEXDIX. 331ington aforesaid, or in the county of Essex, in said State, andalways resided in the State of New-York until about the year1841, since which time deponent has not seen him or knownwhere he was, until a few weeks since, deponent was informed,and believes truly, that said Solomon was held in slavery inthe State of Louisiana. Deponent further says, that said Sol-omon was married in the town of Fort Edward, ha said county,about twenty-four years ago, and that his wife and two daughters and one son now reside in the village of Glens Falls, couuty of Warren, in said State of New-York. And this deponentswears positively that said Solomon Northup is a citizen of saidState of New- York, and was born free, and from his earliestinfancy lived and resided in the counties of Washington, Essex,Warren and Saratoga, in the State of New-York, and that hissaid wife and children have never resided out of said countiessince the time said Solomon was married ; that deponent knewthe father of said Solomon Northup ; that said father was anegro, named Mintus Northup, and died in the town of FortEdAvard, in the county of Washington, State of New- York, onthe 22d day of November, A. D. 1829, and was buried hi thegrave-yard hi Sandy Hill aforesaid ; that for more than thirtyyears before his death he lived hi the counties of Essex, Wash-ington and Rensselaer and State of New-York, and left a wifeand two sons, Joseph and the said Solomon, him surviving;that the mother of said Solomon was a mulatto woman, and isnow dead, and died, as deponent believes, in Oswego county,New-York, within five or six years past. And this deponentfurther states, that the mother of the said Solomon Northupwas not a slave at the time of the birth of said Solomon North-up, and has not been a slave at any time within the last fiftyyears. (Signed,) N, C. NORTHUP.Subscribed and sworn before me this 19th dayof November, 1852. Charles Hughes, Justice Peace.

　　332 TWELVE YEAES A SLAVE.State of New-York :Washington Comity, ss.Orville Clark, of the village of Sandy Hill, in the county of"Washington, State of New- York, being duly sworn, doth de-pose and say — that he, this deponent, is over fifty years of age ;that in the years 1810 and 1811, or most of the time of thoseyears, this deponent resided at Sandy Hill, aforesaid, and atGlens Falls ; that this deponent then knew Mintus Nortlmp, ablack or colored man ; he was then a free man, as this depo-nent believes and always understood ; that the wife of saidMintus Northup, and mother of Solomon, was a free woman ;that from the year 1818 until the time of the death of saidMintus Northup, about the year 1829, this deponent was verywell acquainted with the said Mintus Northup ; that he was arespectable man in the community in which he resided, andwas a free man, so taken and esteemed by all his acquaintan-ces ; that this deponent has also been and was acquainted withhis son Solomon Northup, from the said year 1818 until heleft this part of the country, about the year 1840 or 1841;that he married Anne Hampton, daughter of William Hamp-ton, a near neighbor of this deponent ; that the said Anne, wifeof said Solomon, is now living and resides in this vicinity ; thatthe said Mintus Northup and William Hampton were both re-puted and esteemed in this community as respectable men.And this deponent saith that the said Mintus Northup and hisfamily, and the said William Hampton and his family, fromthe earliest recollection and acquaintance of this deponent withhim (as far back as 1810,) were always reputed, esteemed, andtaken to be, and this deponent believes, truly so, free citizens ofthe State of New- York. This deponent knows the said Wil-liam Hampton, under the laws of this State, was entitled tovote at our elections, and .he believes the said Mintus Northupalso was entitled as a free citizen with the property qualifica-

　　appendix. 333tion. And this deponent further saith, that the said SolomonNorthnp, son of said Mintus, and husband of said Anne Hamp-ton, when he left this State, was at the time thereof a free citi-zen of the State of New- York. And this deponent furthersaith, that said Anne Hampton, wife of Solomon Northup, is arespectable woman, of good character, and I would believe herstatements, and do believe the facts set forth in her memorialto his excellency, the Governor, in relation to her said husband,are true. (Signed,) QRVILLE CLARK.Sworn before me, November19th, 1852.U. G. Paris, Justice of the Peace.State of New-York :Washington County, ss.Benjamin Ferris, of the village of Sandy Hill, in said county,being duly sworn, doth depose and say — that he is now fifty-seven years old, and has resided in said village forty-five years ;that he was well acquainted with Mintus Northup, named inthe annexed memorial of Anne Northup, from the year 1816to the time of his death, which occurred at Port Edward, in thefall of 1829; that he knew the children of the said Mintus,namely, Joseph Northup and Solomon Northup, and that thesaid Solomon is the same person named in said memorial ;that said Mintus resided in the said county of Washington tothe time of his death, and was, during all that time, a free citi-zen of the said State of New- York, as deponent verily believes ;that said memorialist, Anne Northup, is a woman of good char-acter, and the statement contained in her memorial is entitledto credit.(Signed) BENJAMIN FERRIS.Sworn before me, November19th, 1852.U. G. Paris, Justice of the Peace.

　　331 TWELVE YEARS A SLA YE.State of New- York:Executive Chamber, Albany, Nov. 30, 1852.I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of certain proofs filed in the Executive Department, upon which ]have appointed Henry B. Northup an Agent of this State, totake proper proceedings in behalf of Solomon Northup, therein mentioned.(Signed,) WASHINGTON HUNT.By the Governor.J. F. R., Private Secretary.State of New-York :Executive Department.Washington Hunt, Governor of the State of New-York,to whom it may concern, greeting :Whereas, I have received information on oath, which is sat-isfactory to me, that Solomon Northup, who is a free citizen ofthis State, is wrongfully held in slavery, in the State of Lou-isiana :And whereas, it is made my duty, by the laws of this State,to take such measures as I shall deem necessary to procure anycitizen so wrongfully held in slavery, to be restored to his lib-erty and returned to this State :Be it known, that hi pursuance of chapter 375 of the laws ofthis State, passed in 1840, 1 have constituted, appointed and em-ployed Henry B. Northup, Esquire, of the county of Washing-ton, in this State, an Agent, with fall power to effect the resto-ration of said Solomon Northup, and the said Agent is herebyauthorized and empowered to institute such proper and legalproceedings, to procure such evidence, retain such counsel, andfinally to take such measures as will be most likely to accomplish the object of his said appointment.He is also instructed to px'oceed to the State of LouisianaAPPENDIX. 660with all convenient dispatch, to execute the agency herebycreated.hi witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name,[l.s.] and affixed the privy seal of the State, at Albany, tins23d day of November, in the year of our Lord 1852.(Signed,) WASHINGTON HUNT.James F. Euggles, Private Secretary.

　　C— Page 309.State of Louisiana :Parish of Avoyelles.Before me, Aristide Barbin, Recorder of the parish of Avoyelles, personally came and appeared Henry B. Northup, of thecounty of Washington, State of New- York, who hath declaredthat by virtue of a commission to him as agent of the State ofNew- York, given and granted by his excellency, WashingtonHunt, Governor of the said State of New-York, bearing datethe 23d day of November, 1852, authorizing and empoweringhim, the said Northup, to pursue and recover from slavery afree man of color, called Solomon Northup, who is a free citi-zen of the State of New- York, and who was kidnapped and soldinto slavery, in the State of Louisiana, and now in the possessionof Edwin Epps, of the State of Louisiana, of the Parish of Avoy-elles ; he, the said agent, hereto signing, acknowledges that thesaid Edwin has this day given and surrendered to him as suchagent, the said Solomon Northup, free man of color, as afore-said, ha order that he be restored to his freedom, and carriedback to the said State of New- York, pursuant to said commis-sion, the said Edwin Epps being satisfied from the proofs pro-duced by said agent, that the said Solomon Northup is entitledto his freedom. The parties consenting that a certified copy ofeaid power of attorney be annexed to this act.

　　336 TWELVE TEARS A SLAVE.Done and signed at Marksville, parish of Avoyelles, thisfourth day of January, one thousand eight, hundred and fifty-three, in the presence of the undersigned, legal and competentwitnesses, who have also hereto signed.(Signed,) HENRY B. NORTHUP.EDWIN EPPS.ADE. BARBIN, Recorder.Witnesses :H. Tavlor,John P. Waddill.State of Louisiana :Parish of Avoyelles.I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correctcopy of the original on file and of record in my office.Given under my hand and seal of office as Recorder[l. s.] in and for the parish of Avoyelles, this 4th day ofJanuary, A. D. 1853.(Signed,) ADE. BARBIN, Recorder.THE END