Petition #11279607

Abstract

Nancy Handy, Princess Green, and John Carruthers Stanly, free people of color, represent that they "have been set free and emancipated" for "meritorious services." They assert, however, that they have been led "to a belief that their freedom is not made secured, & that the Title of property which they have or may acquire is not safe without being secured by some particular act of Assembly for that purpose." The petitioners therefore pray a law may be passed "which may compleatly set free and emancipate them and vest them with all powers, privileges and advantages which free people of color enjoy."

Result: House, senate: read, referred.

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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

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