When he moved to North Carolina, George T. Kennon, a physician, took along three slave shoemakers--one owned by him and the other two by his mother and brother--as hirelings. Unaware of the law regulating slaves taken out of the state, when he receives an appointment as a Navy surgeon and returns to Virginia, he discovers he did not register the slaves as required by law and now his family stands to lose the three slaves they inherited from General Richard Kennon. The shoemakers are natives of Virginia, he explains, and currently hired out in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. He asks to hold the slaves "free from any penalty or interruption."
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
