James Hamilton represents that in the winter of 1820 he "was induced at the solicitation of a faithful Slave of the name of Robert belonging to the father of your petitioner to assist him in the purchase of his Son William belonging to a Wm Hall of Charleston." Hamilton states that the said Robert intended to repay the purchase price "from the profits of his Trade as a Bricklayer." He further notes that said agreement "was then in conformity with the subsisting Law to have his Son William a Boy of fourteen years of age emancipated." The petitioner reports, however, that he "is unable to fulfil his pledge" due to "the Act passed at your last session." Hamilton therefore prays that an act be passed "declaring the said William to be emancipated and forever free."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
