Petition #11681314

Abstract

In 1805, Simon Binns executed a deed setting his slave Daniel free. However the deed was not recorded until after the passage of the 1806 law prohibiting freed slaves from remaining in Virginia. Daniel now asks the legislature to him the privileges that were in effect according to the law when the deed was written, rather than when it was recorded. A related document reveals that the deed referred to by Daniel was executed in December 1805 and it directed that Daniel would be set free nine years after its execution, that is Daniel would be set free in December 1814.

Result: Bill drawn.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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