M'KEAN, Chief Justice:
The negro Betsey, for whom the Habeas Corpus issued (and upon whose fate, that of the two other negroes depends) was born before the 1st of March 1780, to wit, in the year 1779, and her name, age, sex, &c. were not registered in the office of the Clerk of the Peace of the county of Chesler, in which the master, Samuel Moore, then inhabited, on, or before, the 1st of November, 1780, agreeably...
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