11279805https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11279805North CarolinaCravenCounty19111798Petitiongranted012North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaJohn Carruthers Stanly, "a man of mixed blood," recounts that Alexander and Lydia Stewart, "in consideration of the long, faithful & meritorious services of your petitioner," sought and received a licence from the Craven County Court "to sett your petitioner free"; the said licence enabled them to execute a deed of manumission "whereby they [did] give, grant, & confirm unto your petitioner his freedom liberty & emancipation." Fearing "that some accident may deprive him of the evidence of his emancipation & thereby of the fruits of his honest industry," Stanly prays that a law be passed to "confirm, establish and Secure to your petitioner his Freedom."owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slaveProperty owners (Black)Enslaver (FPOC)