11285102https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11285102North CarolinaBeaufortCounty1811851Legislativereferred to committee0010North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaThirty-eight citizens of Beaufort County "do respectfully request of the Legeslature Now assembled to pass a law, that all free negroes creating a debt, and haveing nothing to execute, that we may levy an execution on his body and put him up publicly and hire him out untill the debt be paid."Insolvency