Petition #11286202

• Wake County, North Carolina. filing started circa 1862.
• Court: Archives
• Salutation: To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

Abstract

Sally Scott, a twenty-two-year-old free woman of color and mother of nine-month-old John, confesses "that she is tired of being free -- that she finds it difficult to support herself and is desirous of having a master." She therefore prays "that by Resolution of this body she and her son shall be enslaved, and that Sidney A. Hinton of Wake County may be declared her master."

Result: Rejected.

• Number of petition pages: 1
• Related documents: Report of the Judiciary Committee, n.d.
• Pages of related documents: 2

2 people are documented within petition 11286202

• 2 Free persons of color
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

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

• General Assembly, Session Records, House Committee Reports, November--December 1862

Subjects

• Voluntary enslavement
• Civil War, impact of