Petition #10379402

• New Castle County, Delaware. filing started circa 1794.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Delaware: the memorial of the subscribers, inhabitants of New-Castle County

Abstract

Fifty-nine residents of New Castle County petition for stricter enforcement of the laws prohibiting the enslavement of free people of color and for the gradual abolition of slavery. "We ask not of your honorable body to put an end at once to slavery, but we desire, that a method may be fallen upon which shall make it gradually disappear."

• Number of petition pages: 4
• Related documents: See PAR #10379406
• Pages of related documents: 0

10 people are documented within petition 10379402

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• General Assembly, Legislative Papers
• Record group: 1111
• Page: 160-164
• Microfilm: 160-164

Subjects

• Abolition