Martha Cole laments that her husband "about five years past was smitten with lunacy" and that his insanity requires that he be kept "close confined in a small building under the same Roof with the Dwelling House on his own plantation." Almost sixty years old and somewhat infirm, Martha admits that she "is destitute of any white family except her husband” and "finds it very inconvenient to live in her present situation." She reveals that John owns 240 acres of land, along with four slaves which were "given to your memorialist by her father." The petitioner therefore prays that a law be passed "authorizing her to sell or otherwise dispose of the above mention property or such a part thereof as she may find necessary in order to enable her to employ suitable attendants for her said husband and for the support of your memorialist and the humane treatment of her said husband."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
