Nathan Creecy states that he bought at auction a "condemned Negro woman" named Peg and her child Hannah for seventy-eight pounds, "a large price at that time for a Negro woman & child that had once enjoyed freedom." Creecy then learned that Hannah had been born prior to Peg's manumission and was the slave of Robert Newby. Wishing to keep mother and child together (Hannah was only ten months old), Creecy bought her as a slave until she reached age eighteen, "at which time she is subject to be taken from your petitioner and sold for the benefit of the Publick." Creecy also relates that he bought Peg's two-year-old son Tom, until he reached age twenty-one, "at which time he is subject to be taken from your petitioner and sold for the benefit of the Publick." Having experienced "much expense & trouble in raising the said boy & it being the request of the former owner of said Negroes that they should stay together," Creecy asks that a law be passed "establishing & confirming the right of said Negroes Tom & Hannah in him."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
