<petition><petition_analysis_number>11381715</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11381715</petition_url><state>South Carolina</state><county>Edgefield</county><location_type>District/Parish</location_type><file_day>5</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1817</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>1</total_people_count><repository>South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina</repository><abstract>Daniel Nail represents that, "previous to the passage of an act to prevent the introduction of Slaves &amp;c into this state," he purchased "a negroe fellow in the state of Georgia."  Noting that he is "the owner of said negroes Wife &amp; children," Nail prays that "an Act may pass authorising him to bring said negroe slave into this state."</abstract><subjects><subject>Family separated (Black)</subject></subjects></petition>