Twenty-one citizens of Stokes County represent that "Richard a black man formerly the property of Mr. Noble Ladd of said County has totally purchased his freedom" and that “he has a free woman to his wife and several Children which they indeavor to bring up in an orderly manner together with some property that they have acquired by their Labor." The petitioners therefore "humbly solicit your Honorable body that you will Liberate & set free the sd Richard."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
