Forty citizens of Edgecombe County oppose the petition of the executor of the late Godwin Cotten to emancipate a slave named Ely, who was "a turbulent and what may be termed a bad Negro" prior to his sale by Drewry King of Halifax County, Virginia, to the said Cotten. The petitioners therefore "pray your Honorable Body not to Liberate the said Ely only on condition that he be sent out of the State."
Result: House: referred to committee.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
