John Price bought three slaves at his mother-in-law's estate sale in Maryland. He seeks exemption from the Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to bring the slaves from Maryland into Delaware. Price states that the slaves belonged to his wife's family for many years and, if he had "consulted his own interest, he would never have purchased negros of their age and in the state of Maryland too where it is well Known the price of slav[e]s is much greater than it is in Delaware." He further notes that his purchase was prompted by a desire "to prevent them being Transported to a southern Market."
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
