10381823https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10381823DelawareSussexCounty1211818Legislativeread0010Delaware State Archives, Dover, DelawareNoting the "many acts of felony of pilfering & stealing Commited by the people of Colour both Bound & free," forty-one residents of Dagsborough and Baltimore Hundred's, Sussex County, request the establishment of a patrol. Lamenting that "the Inhabitants are much Distressed in their property Such as Poltry of Every Kind Sheep, Smoke houses & Corn Stacks," the petitioners pray "your Honourable Body to take the premises into your Serious Considerations and Enact a Paterole Law to the extent that such vile practices may be done away if Possible."Militias/PatrolsTheft by enslaved