Delaware resident Walter Dulany contends that the recent behavior of his two slaves, whose relatives mostly reside in Maryland, requires that he either sell them or "use harsh and rigorous treatment towards them, for the purpose of preserving due order and submission in his family." He further states that he wishes to avoid "the last mentioned line of conduct ... as it is the most disagreeable method of the two, and not so likely as the former to effect the desired object." Dulany therefore prays that a law be passed "authorizing him to sell and dispose of the said Slaves to some citizen or citizens of the State of Maryland, willing to buy them."
Result: House: read, referred to committee.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
