Thirty-eight residents of Rockingham County join John Cowen in asking that John Robinson, Cowen's former slave, be permitted to remain in the state. They avow that said Robinson "is a remarkably well behaved, sober, and industrious negro" and that he "is a useful negro in this Community and has evinced his fidelity and good conduct in a peculiar manner." Cowen reports that in 1847 said Robinson "traveled with me as my servant through Pennsylvania and Ohio and was often requested by Abolitionists to leave me and on one occasion was threatened to be taken by force"; Robinson "steadfastly refused to do so." The petitioners therefore pray that John Robinson be allowed to remain in Virginia.
Result: Referred to propositions and grievances.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
