Laucklin McKeller seeks to bring about twenty slaves to North Carolina from Jamaica. He relates that he visited his uncle, Peter McDonald, in Kingston about 1803 and that, "about a year After Petitioners arrival in the Island of Jamaica," the said McDonald died. McKeller reveals that "on his death Petitioner amongst other property became entitled to" the said slaves. Desirous "to return and remain for ever in his native land," the petitioner prays that "He may (by an Act of the Legislature) be permitted to bring with him the said Negroe Slaves his Servants free from the impediments of the existing Laws of the State."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
