Petition #20382218

Abstract

Jacob Lowber, a free person of color, states that Jehu and Thomas Clark were granted a permit "to sell a negro boy named James Dill in said petition alleged to be their slave to the highest bidder in or out of the State." Lowber further states that "said James Dill is the son of your petitioner, and at the time of granting said permit was a free negro and was born a free negro." Avowing that the mother of said James "had been manumitted in the City of Philadelphia" before her son's birth, Lowber asks that the permit be rescinded.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

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