Petition #11280404

• Guilford County, North Carolina. filing started circa 1804.
• Court: Archives
• Salutation: To the honourable General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

Abstract

Harry Ash, “a freeman of Colour," represents that he purchased his wife America from Milla Clarke in 1802; in 1803 "his Wife the said America was delivered of a daughter named Jemima." Desirous that his wife and child "should be entitled to the privileges of free persons of Colour," the petitioner prays that the Legislature "Liberate them by the names of America and Jemima Ash."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Bill of Sale, Milla Clark to Harry Ash, 10 July 1802; Testimonial, James Campbell, et al., ca. 1804
• Pages of related documents: 2

4 people are documented within petition 11280404

• 1 Free person of color
• 2 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• General Assembly, Session Records, Emancipation Petitions, November--December 1804

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)
• Frees own family (FPOC)