<petition><petition_analysis_number>11285002</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11285002</petition_url><state>North Carolina</state><county>Montgomery</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1850</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina</repository><abstract>David Kendall seeks to free his sixty-year-old slave Daniel, who has "bin a faith ful slave and has performed wonderfully his [duties]."  Kendall reports that Daniel's father, an old "Colerd man who was liberated about 40 years agoe by the general Assembly" and is called Daniel Shad, "ever supported a good honest character."  He also represents that "Daniel the servant to whom I now [petition] your honerable boddy to grant manumition is a slave of good moral and [honest] character."</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Seniors (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>