William H. Haywood and Edward E. Graham, executors of the estate of the late Mary McKinlay, represent that the said McKinlay "by her said will bequeathed & devised that all her slaves (10 or 11 in number) shall be emancipated & the will expressly enjoins it upon your petitioners to ask leave of the General Assembly to emancipate said slaves and let them remain as free people of color in this State." They further state the said will directs them "to send the said slaves out of the State and have them emancipated but not to do this until an effort has been made to procure license from the General Assembly." The petitioner therefore pray "that your honorable body will pass an act allowing them to emancipate the Slaves of Mary McKinlay decd with liberty to said slaves to remain in this State."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
