Zacharia Nance of Union District inherited a slave named Julius from his father, William Nance, late of Halifax County, Virginia. As the trustee of his father's estate, Nance states that he is also responsible for distributing two other slaves, one to his brother and one to his daughter. The petitioner prays "for an Indemnification, or adopt some mode so as your Petitioner may possess the said Slaves without Violating the Laws of his Country." He further reveals that "a Superanuated negro woman" freed in his father's wishes, "by natural Instinct," to be near "some of her Children I now possess." He therefore asks that she be permitted to enter South Carolina “to be near her relatives."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
