11280205https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11280205North CarolinaCravenCounty1802Legislativegranted316North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaJohn Carruthers Stanly, a free man of color, submits that he purchased "a negro male of the age of two years, named John, whom he considers his child"; in 1801, he purchased "a mulatto child named John, who is the result of a matrimonial connection between your Petitioner and Kitty." Stanly, of the opinion that "it is inconsistent with nature, for the parent to wish his child in a state of vassalage, either to another or himself," asks that said children be manumitted. He requests that two-year-old John be "known in future by the name of James Florence" and that the other child "hereafter to be known & distinguished by the name of John Stewart Stanly."Purchased own family (FPOC)Property owners (Black)Purchase/Sale (enslaved children)Enslaver (FPOC)Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)Purchased for emancipation Frees own family (FPOC)