Twenty-six white men petition the legislature for an act of incorporation in order to maintain a school for the children of people of color. They represent that they "have for a number of years been associated for the purpose of affording literary instruction to the children of the African race, and by the benevolence of individuals have been enabled to purchase a small Lot of Land and Building in the Borough of Wilmington for the accommodation of a school." Desiring to "become a body politic in Law capable of holding real Estate," they ask that the "Legislature may grant them an act of Incorporation with such powers as in its wisdom may be deemed proper for the purposes aforesaid."
Result: House: read, referred; senate: read.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
