Free persons of color Sam and Celia, who are in their late sixties, and Dennis, age about forty-three, were emancipated in the will of their late master Isabella Leonard and also bequeathed 188 acres of land, along "with all the Crop of corn, wheat, Oats, Fodder, and Tobacco, with the stock of horses, Cattle, hogs, and Sheep &c &c." They have "White Friends" who will vouch for their honesty. They seek to stay in Virginia.
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
