Thirty-seven residents of Granville County "beg leave to ask the favour of your aid" in providing relief for Admiral Dunston, a free man of color from Mecklenburg County, Virginia. They offer, as "a Statement of Facts," that Dunston, a wheelwright and property owner in Virginia, recently "married in a respectable Family in this neighbourhood." The petitioners point out that "by the Laws of Virginia he is prevented from carrying his wife to that state, nor can he by our Laws remove to this" state. They therefore pray that a law be enacted "sanctioning his removal to this State."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
