Joseph Wardlaw reports that he "in partnership with James Wardlaw purchased in the state of North Carolina on the 21st day of February 1816 a negro woman named Delph, who immediately after the purchase ranaway"; this prevented he and James from bringing her into South Carolina "as was their intention." The petitioner further states that he "has since purchased James Wardlaw's share of said negro woman, who has since had a child." Noting that the "existing law of this state" prohibits him from bringing Delph and her baby home, he therefore prays that he be granted "permission to bring said slave & her child into this state."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
