Eighteen residents of Randolph County report that the late John Bagnel "left two Mulato [female] Children whose mother is also dead & left no will in writing altho possessed of some personal property." The petitioners aver that they are "fully satisfied that he own'd sd. children to be his & wish'd them to injoy the little property he was possessed of." They therefore pray that a law be passed "as may Entitle them to freedom & to inherite what little property may be found." They further "desire their Names to be Established Sarah Bagnell & Hannah Bagnell."
Result: Senate, house: read, referred.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
