Petition #20379507

Abstract

Stephen Mitchell seeks permission "to send and transport" his slave Sam "out of this State." Mitchell asserts that Sam, a conjurer, "hath poisened one of his Negros" and is "now in the public prison of the County." The petitioner also notes that Sam "keeps as a wife a white woman contrary to the Laws of the Land."

Result: Granted.

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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

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