Adam Diehl seeks permission to export and sell his female slave Eve, who has "very bad principles, and has been guilty of several atrocious acts." Diehl asserts that she stole $40 from him and "also some time since attempted to poison your Petitioner, but failed in her attempt." Believing that "the peace & security of the neighborhood" are at stake, the petitioner prays that he be granted "a permit authorising him to export into the State of Maryland" the slave Eve. Diehl explains in a letter that he has no real desire to sell Eve out of state; instead, he hopes to use the permit "as a means of coercing her to leave Delaware." He also notes that he is "now at the expence of keeping her in Jail in order to prevent her depredating on the community."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
