<petition><petition_analysis_number>10382611</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382611</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>New Castle</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>17</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1826</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>House: read, referred</result><enslaved_count>5</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>6</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Peregrine Hendrickson states that he is "possessed" of a fifty-three-year-old slave named Nelly and four "manumitted Negroes" who are "to be free at the age of 30 years agreeable to a deed of manumission recorded in ... Kent County Maryland."  He therefore prays that a law be passed "to authorize him to bring said slave &amp; manumitted Negroes into the state of Delaware."</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Term slavery</subject></subjects></petition>