Jesse Wright of Dorchester County, Maryland, married the daughter of the late Thomas W. Dawson of Sussex County, Delaware. He notes that "at a late Division of the negroes of the said Deceased a boy named Washington in the eighteenth year of his age, a slave for life," fell "to the lot of the wife of your Petitioner." Wright therefore "humbly craves of your honourable Body the liberty of transporting and removing the said negro Boy from this state to the state of Maryland and there retain him as a slave." The petitioner assures "the honourable Body" that "neither he nor any member of his Family were ever concerned, even in the most remote degree, in the Traffic of their Species."
Result: House: read, referred to committee.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
