Edmund Blount recounts that his sister Elizabeth married Halifax County merchant Andrew Miller, who fled to Bermuda in 1776 "in a State of Distress." Blount further states that he purchased "five Negro men" held by Miller "for the sum of Sixteen hundred pounds." He asserts that he hired three of said slaves "to Gentlemen in Hallifax, where your Commissioner of Confiscated Property for the District of Hallifax took into his Possession" the said slaves "and sold them notwithstanding your Petitioner ... Claim to said Negroes." Blount "now Prays that he may Receive such Relief in Regard of the Premises as to the wisdom & Justice of the Legislature shall seem mete."
Result: Committee recommends partial compensation.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
