John Handy, the "reputed father" of two-year-old mulatto Peggy Handy, purchased his daughter from Elizabeth Vail; he then loaned the child back to the former owner for the "purpose of maintaining and educating her and intending that she should afterwards be free." A mistake in the transfer deed, however, meant that Peggy would not remain with Vail after the term for which she had been lent but would revert to John Handy's estate. Fearing his intentions "would be thereby defeated," he issued a deed of emancipation, saying that after the loan period Peggy would "be forever free." Vail asks the legislature to free "the said Mulatto girl."
Result: House, senate: read, referred.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
