Petition #11681123

Abstract

Having purchased a farm in Ohio County, Virginia, many years before, Robert Hardcastle now plans to move from Talbot County, Maryland, where he has "no family to detain him," to Virginia. He is desirous to settle his grandson on his farm, for the boy is the "only one of his offspring" in the state of Virginia "with whom he intends spending the remainder of his days," which can be "but few according to the causes of nature he being upwards of seventy two years of age." Hardcastle has brought with him from Maryland "one Male Slave a lad of about Sixteen years" to whom he is very much attached, having "raised" him from childhood, who is attached to him as well, and whose services are much needed in his old age. Hardcastle therefore prays that the legislature will "grant him the priviledge to continue his slave without incurring the penalty of the Law."

Result: Reasonable.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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