Rebecca Drayton seeks to emancipate a slave named Abba, who she inherited from a "very near connection" twenty years ago "under the solemn promise from your petitioner that she would at her death set the said slave free." Drayton states that "the said slave has always lived under the expectation of being one day free, and has faithfully served your Petitioner, who is old and helpless." She therefore prays that she "be permitted to emancipate the said slave," who is "now rather advanced in life, is without children and so industrious and inexpensive that your Petitioner would fain hope, there is not even a remote probability that her emancipation would be attended with any evil consequences."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
