Petition #20384802

• Sussex County, Delaware. September 19, 1848. - circa 1848.
• Court: Chancery
• Salutation: To the Honorable Kensey Johns, Jr. Chancellor of the State of Delaware

Abstract

Declared insane in 1839, Nathaniel Pointer asks the court to allow him to manage his own affairs. Pointer, who previously was entitled to a seven-year-old term slave, asserts that he is "now of sound mind and understanding." He is therefore "desirous that the said Commission of Lunacy should be now superseded."

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #20383901, #20383903, #20384402; Decree, ca. 1848; Accounts, Charles Argoe, Trustee, 1839-1848
• Pages of related documents: 16

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• Records of the Chancery Court, Case Files
• Record group: 4835
• Microfilm: Reel 8

Subjects

• Diseases (mental)
• Property owners (women)