Emancipated by his late owner Catharine Dunlap, Nathan and fifty-five white citizens of the county seek permission for Nathan to remain in Rockingham County where his wife and four children, the slaves of George Sites, reside. The petitioners explain that Nathan does not have the means of purchasing his family and cannot accumulate the necessary funds to do it in a "short time;" yet he has "all those tender sympathies & ties which bind man to the place of his birth, the wife of his bosom and the offspring of their mutual love & affection."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
