Petition #11285404

• Cumberland County, North Carolina. filing started November 1854.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To/ The General Assembly of North Carolina

Abstract

The four owners of Peter Turner, a slave about sixty years of age, "desire his Emancipation from slavery" due to "his fidelity & other good traits of character." In an attached deposition, John Shaw praises Peter Turner and Abel Payne as being instrumental in saving his warehouse from a raging fire.

• Number of petition pages: 1
• Related documents: List of Subscribers, ca. 1854; John Shaw to J. G. Shepherd, 22 November 1854
• Pages of related documents: 4

6 people are documented within petition 11285404

• 1 Enslaved
• 4 Petitioners
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• General Assembly, Sessions Records

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Seniors (enslaved)