Mary Thomas represents that she has received two slaves--Easter and Mark--by deed of gift from a North Carolina woman named Joanna Person, a relative of her late husband. Both slaves were born in North Carolina and when Mary Thomas moved to Virginia forty or fifty days prior to the filing of her petition, she brought the slaves with her, never intending or designing to sell them in violation of the law. She is "poor and needy," as well as "a widow aged and infirm." She asks to keep the slaves for her own use.
Result: Reasonable.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
