William Lance represents that fifty-five-year-old Abigail Jones, a free woman of color, moved from Charleston to New York City in 1823 "with her daughter Ann Deas and two grandchildren Abigail Jones Lee and John Lee, also free persons of color and natives of Charleston ... taking with them a girl named Martha, a Slave, as a Servant." He further reports that Abigail's husband Jehu "has always continued to reside in Charleston." The petitioner states that "the said Jehu Jones is far advanced in years, being of the age of Fifty Eight Years, and is anxiously desirous of passing the remainder of his days in his native land, where he has always lived ... and is equally solicitous, as is she herself, that the said Wife with her said family should be allowed to return to this state." He attests that "the said Jehu and Abigail Jones ... are honest industrious and decent people, and have always sustained that reputation." Lance therefore prays "your honorable body ... to permit her, & her above named family and Servant, to return to her husband, her friends and the country of her birth."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
