In 1815, John Gibbons of Delaware married the daughter of Major Francis Turpin of Dorchester County, Maryland. Gibbons states that, "in consequence of her increasing family and Paternal Benevolence," Turpin "lately presented his Daughter ... with one of his negro women a slave and her child to serve as a cook and house servant." Gibbons "most humbly solicits the Privilege of your Honourable Body to remove" the two slaves from Maryland to the state of Delaware. He further declares "that he never has directly or indirectly, even in the remotest degree ever aided, assisted abetted or been in any manner" a party "in the Traffic of this Species, a traffic to your Petitioner odious and abominable."
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
