Ann Ferguson seeks to emancipate her slave Annette and Annette's two children, fourteen-year-old Joseph Bampfield and five-year-old Mary Bampfield. Noting that Annette "has always lived under the eye of your petitioner," Ferguson avows that the thirty-five-year-old slave "has uniformly maintained an excellent character, exhibiting on every occasion the utmost fidelity and affection toward her mistress." The petitioner points out that Annette was born "of a mulatto woman and is herself a Quadroon" and that "both her children are so white as to render it almost impossible for them to be distinguished from white Persons." She therefore prays "your honorable body to take such measures for the emancipation of the said Annette and her Children."
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