Fifty-five residents of Fayetteville praise sixty-five-year-old Lewis Williams as a man "of good moral character, peaceable and quiet, and very much respected in the community where he resides." Believing "Lewis to be a suitable person to be enfranchised," they ask the General Assembly to "look favorably on his case" and provide for his liberation, "as we think and believe he will make an honest and upright citizen."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
