There are two transcriptions available here: that of the pamphlet Opinions of Several Gentlemen of the Law, On the Subject of Negro Servitude, in the Province of Nova-Scotia (1802); and that of James DeLancey's complaint of trespass (1803).
The pamphlet was originally digitized and converted to text with an OCR program; because of the archaic typeface, much proofreading and correction was required. The complaint, a very badly hand-written document, was painfully deciphered and the text was typed in. Both transcript documents were then marked up according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) P4 encoding recommendation (an XML format). XSL transforms were then used to generate the HTML for the web pages.
The two transcripts
Opinions of Several Gentlemen of the Law
DeLancey vs. Woodin: A Complaint of Trespass
In addition to the interactive transcripts available in the next two web pages, the transcripts are also available in the following formats. The content of all of these files is copyright 2004 by David Badke, but permission is hereby granted for any non-commercial use, as long as the header data for each file is kept with the file.
Text only - only the text, with no markup
Opinions of Several Gentlemen of the Law
DeLancey vs. Woodin: A Complaint of Trespass
Both transcripts, in a ZIP archive file
XML format (TEI P4)
These use a subset of the TEI P4 DTD, generated by the TEI Pizza Chef. The subset DTD is included in the ZIP archive files below. You may need to modify the DOCTYPE statement in the XML files to point to wherever you put the DTD.
To save the XML files to your system, right click or option click, select "Save target as" or "Save link as" (the exact procedure depends on your browser).
Opinions of Several Gentlemen of the Law
DeLancey vs. Woodin: A Complaint of Trespass
Both files, in a ZIP archive file (includes the XSLT files and DTD)
All files, in a ZIP archive file
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