Petition #11681503

• filing started December 21, 1815.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the Honble the Speaker & House of Delegates of Virginia

Abstract

Emancipated about six years prior the filing of his petition, by the "Kindness & liberality" of his late master, Robert Pleasants, free black Henry Carter purchased his slave wife and "other property both personal and real." Carter now wishes to emancipate Priscilla and asks that she be permitted to remain in the commonwealth, exempted from the emigration law.

Result: Laid on table.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Certificate, James Vaughan, Richmond City, 15 December 1815; Certificate, Thomas Ladd, et al., 18 December 1815; Certificate, Peyton Drew, et al., 8 November 1814; Certificate, James Vaughan, December 1815
• Pages of related documents: 4

4 people are documented within petition 11681503

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Free person of color
• 1 Petitioner
• 2 Others

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Citation information

Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

• Legislative Petitions

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Property owners (Black)
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• State residency issues (FPOC)
• Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)
• Frees own family (FPOC)
• Family kept together (Black)