<petition><petition_analysis_number>10382108</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382108</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>Kent</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>31</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1821</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>House: read, referred to committee</result><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Isaac Davis is the owner of eighteen-year-old Richard and sixteen-year-old James, who "are to serve until they respectively arive to the ages of thirty years."  Davis asks that a law be passed "Authorising him to remove the said Richard and James, to his farm in ... State of Maryland and to hold them during their time of Service."</abstract><subjects><subject>Term slavery</subject></subjects></petition>