William Hudson informs the General Assembly that Abraham Conway, a free man of color, bound his son, John Conway "unto your petitioner" in 1835 until the said child "should arrive to the age of Twenty-one years." Hudson complains that "the said Apprentice was discharged from the service of your petitioner by the Court on account of the said Justice having neglected and refused to have the Indentures Recorded." Noting that John's services "were becoming to be of any benefit unto your petitioner," Hudson asks that an act be passed "legalizing the Indentures of binding so as to enable him to be entitled to the services of the said John Conway for the unexpired term thereof ... as fully as if the said Indentures had been Recorded."
Result: Read, referred; "inexpedient to legislate".
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
