Jack York

Jack York (fl. 1800) was a Canadian slave in the Western District who supposedly broke into the cabin of a white woman named Ruth Tufflemier and raped her. He was tried before Justice William Dummer Powell. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, but the sentence was never carried out. York eventually escaped and disappeared.

References

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

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