Rose, a free woman of color, recounts that August Cabarrus emancipated her for "meritorious services" in 1808. She further discloses that "shortly after her liberation aforesaid, her late master ... had the goodness to make her a gift of her two children Charlotte and Leon." Rose frets that "if she should die her said children (the eldest of whom is only eight years of age) might be taken up and sold, and thereby not only reduced to slavery, but probably separated from each other (a calamity upon which a mother could not reflect without terror)." She therefore prays "your Honorable Body to pass an act for the liberation of her said children Charlotte and Leon."
Result: Senate, house: read, referred.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
