11279701https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11279701North CarolinaAnsonCounty24111797Legislativerejected719North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaAbraham Jones, a free "mixt Blooded man," avows that "about forty years past he purchased a Certain Woman of Coller by the name of Lydia of one John Westerfield & paid honestly for her & hath Since had Six Children by said Woman." Jones expresses "very great uneasyness" concerning the possibility that "when your Petitioner dyed his Wife & Children woud be Slave." He therefore prays that "your Honourable Body Will take my Case into your Consideration & give your Petitioner Such Relief as in your Wisdom shall seam meet." Twenty-nine subscribers attest that Jones "hath always behaved himself as a man of Choler ought to do & further supports the carrecter of an honest Industrous man & think his case to be [heard] and ought to be Redrest by passing a law of Liberation." Purchased own family (FPOC)owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slaveEnslaver (FPOC)Frees own family (FPOC)