Sixty-three residents of Rockingham County inform the court that Nathan Dunlap, who was recently emancipated by his owner, Catharine Dunlap, has always exhibited "a most excellent character, as an honest, harmless, quiet, industrious man." Dunlap is approximately fifty years old and has a wife and five slave children. The petitioners ask that he be permitted to remain in the state.
Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
