Petition #10383003

• New Castle County, Delaware. filing started circa 1830.
• Court: Archives
• Salutation: To the Senate & house of representatives of Delaware in General Assemlby met

Abstract

Dr. James Thompson asks that he may "be authorized according to the laws of the State, to introduce into it, from Virginia, a certain female slave named Hannah & to be held here by him as such." Thompson states that Hannah "is upwards of fifty years of age" and is "of the great desire" to come and reside with his family in Delaware.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: James Thompson to Representative Harman Talley, ca. 1830
• Pages of related documents: 1

2 people are documented within petition 10383003

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware

• General Assembly, Legislative Papers
• Record group: 1111
• Page: 164-167
• Microfilm: 164-167

Subjects

• Absentee owners