Peregrine Hendrickson asks to export and sell Julia Ann, a ten-year-old slave, who set fire to his house and attempted to poison a neighbor's infant. Hendrickson states that she exhibited "a degree of cunning and management, which evince a character & disposition of the most dangerous kind." The petitioner notes that the attorney general has already decided "that from the youth of the said Julia Ann, a prosecution for a capital offence had better not be instituted, as a conviction could scarcely be expected of one of so tender an age."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
