Living some twenty-five or thirty miles away from his wife, the slave Will, owned by Bowling Clark of Campbell County, asks Dr. Samuel K. Jennings to purchase his slave wife Mourning, who belongs to a man in Amherst County. Will had saved the purchase money himself, and Jennings believes it is admirable that the black man seeks to purchase his wife rather than buying himself. Mourning is "a woman of fair & honest Character remarkable for her Industry & the correctness of her Conduct." She and Will have lived together as man and wife for more than twenty years. Samuel Jennings asks that Mourning be freed and allowed to remain in Virginia.
Result: Laid on the table.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
