John Hall represents that he "is possessed in his own right of a certain female slave of mixed Blood about the age of five years called Judith." He further explains that said child "is the Offspring of a Gentleman who is lately deceased to which Gentleman on his Death bed, your petioner entered into a solemn promise" that he "would endeavour to procure the manumition and freedom of the said female slave." Hall, in pursuance of his "sacred promise," prays "that by an Act of this General Assembly the said female slave may be emancipated & set free by the name of Judith Phillips."
Result: House, senate: read, referred.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
