John Harris, a resident of York District "near the North Carolina Line," asks that he be allowed to bring six-year-old Susan and three-year-old Linda into South Carolina. Harris reports that he purchased said slave children "through motives of humanity" and "with the sole intention of making them a part of his family"; Harris "now owns and has owned the Mother of Said Children." Avowing that "it is not his intention to sell them, offer them for Sale, or in any wise dispose of them contrary to the Laws of this State," he prays that "he may be enabled, by an act of your honourable body to bring Said Children within the limits of this State, to their Mother, their Master, & their much desired Home."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
