Jonathan Bewley, with five additional petitioners, represents that in 1850 "some evil disposed person or persons in one of the most public streets of Smyrna kidnapped and took into the State of Maryland a Small black boy the property of M James Bewley." They state that the slaveholder offered a reward for the return of his property and that one of the kidnappers was arrested and jailed in Dover; the second, following a request from the governor of Delaware, was arrested in Maryland but broke out of jail and later died. The petitioners "now ask the Legislature to remunerate Mr Bewley for the expense he has incurred."
Result: House: presented, read.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
