Nicholas Nixon seeks to emancipate a slave by the name of Sam, "now between the ages of fifty five and sixty." He reports that Sam was held by Robert Nixon until 1809 and then by Nixon's widow, Christian Nixon, until 1832. The petitioner further notes that Sam managed the widow’s business affairs for twenty-three years; he superintended her farm, oversaw her other slaves, and sold her crops. Nixon also reveals that in 1822 when "the kitchen of the said Christian Nixon, situated near her dwelling house was consumed by fire," Sam "at the risque and peril of his life succeeded in protecting it from burning." The petitioner therefore prays that "said slave Sam may be emancipated and set free."
Result: Rejected by committee.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
