Petition #20379507
- Sussex County, Delaware. November 18, 1795. - circa November 1795.
- Court: County
- Salutation: To the Honorable The Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions now setting at George Town this 18th day of November [1]795
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.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Pages of related documents: 0
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Citation information
Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
- Court Papers c. 1776-1867
- Record group: 4805
- Folder: 353
- Microfilm: Reel 7
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