Roger Adams, guardian of his orphan grandson, asks that he be permitted to bring a slave into Delaware from the state of Maryland. Adams explains that he had given his daughter, Mary Adams Eaton, a slave named Venus; however, "in consequence of the death of sd. Eaton & wife," the slave, as part of the estate, "has been sold by way of public Vendue." He further relates that he, "through a partiallity or regard for sd. Negroe, and as well to keep her from hands that might make an ungenerous trade of her, became the highest bidder and purchaser of her." Adams therefore prays that an act be passed permitting "your petitioner to bring the Said Negro out of the State of Maryland home to his farm and dwelling in Sussex County in the State of Delaware.”
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
