Petition #11683630

Abstract

Twenty-five Fairfax County residents ask that "persons trading in carts wagons & Carryalls" be more strongly regulated. The petitioners assert that said peddling is "highly injurious to the farmers, and detrimental to the character and value of our slaves." They further declare that many of "these vehicles, we fear, are owned, & driven by persons not of good fame, or strict probity." The residents decry that "the great facilities that [said peddlers] ... offer to many articles plundered from our farms is a most serious grievance." They therefore pray that "all persons engaged in this pedling, & petty Traffic should be compelled to procure a license from the county courts."

Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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