Mussendine Matthews, executor of the will of Mary Knox, puts forth that "the said Mary Knox in her last will instructed and especially requested her executors to use all lawful endeavours to have a slave woman belonging to her named Sall liberated." Matthews further discloses that "said Slave is now living and has for many years by permission of her deceased Mistress lived with a free man of colour as his wife in the County of Rowan." The petitioner therefore prays that "your honourable body would take the case into consideration and liberate the said Sall by the name of Sarah Ford."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
