Richard Rew represents that "by virtue of a Judgement of the Court of Accomack, pronounced on the fourth day of April 1938 a certain William a freed negro was sold by the Sheriff of said County at publick auction" in consequence of his having remained "in the said County more than twelve months after his right to freedom had accrued." Rew reports that he purchased William for $526 "not on speculation but because the Boy desired him to do so, as his wife was a slave and he did not want to part from her." He further relates that in 1839 "the said William ran off from your Petitioner and has gone to the State of New York and has thus proved a total loss to your Petitioner." Rew therefore prays "your honourable body to refund to him the note amount thus paid into the Treasury from the proceeds of said sale and leave him and the said negro where the humanity of the Laws would seem to suggest they should be left."
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
