Petition #20978302

Abstract

Mary Butler states that she "is descended from a free white woman and is entitled to Liberty," but that Adam Craig holds her in bondage "and will not suffer her to go free." Butler asks that Craig be required to answer these charges. In 1770, the petitioner's parents filed the following petition: "The Humble Petition of William Butler and Mary Butler sheweth that they are justly entitled to Freedom but are detained in a State of Perpetual Slavery by Richard Boarman of St. Mary's County planter your petitioners thereof desire your Honours to consider their case and set them at liberty and otherwise releive them in the premises~ And as in duty bound they will ever pray &c."

Result: Granted; appealed; affirmed.

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Repository: Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland

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