In his last will and testament, the late Captain Robert Craig directed that his slaves Lucy and Delila be freed one year after his death. Craig died in 1834 and now Lucy, calling herself Lucy Crawford, and Delila, calling herself Delila Bowyer, petition for permission to remain in Virginia after emancipation. Lucy is about sixty-five years old and a widow, her husband having died some years before, and her children are "dispersed by distribution and otherwise in different parts of the world." Delila is about forty-five, and her husband remains in the area as a slave.
Result: Reasonable.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
