Petition #10382611

Abstract

Peregrine Hendrickson states that he is "possessed" of a fifty-three-year-old slave named Nelly and four "manumitted Negroes" who are "to be free at the age of 30 years agreeable to a deed of manumission recorded in ... Kent County Maryland." He therefore prays that a law be passed "to authorize him to bring said slave & manumitted Negroes into the state of Delaware."

Result: House: read, referred.

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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

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