Martha, a free woman of color, asks permission to reside in Virginia. She states that the late Catharine Hancock emancipated her three or four years ago and that she "in obedience to its Laws left the Commonwealth and abode and now abides in a strange land, amongst strangers." She further recounts that she "previous to her Manumission had taken as a Husband a certain slave called Lewis ... to whom she is sincerely attached, and to whose company and intercourse she now humbly and fervently prays your Honble body to restore her by permitting her to return to reside in, for the residue of her days, her native neighborhood and State, dear old Virginia."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
