Rev. W. P. Hill wrote Gen. S. McGowen that a certain Elizabeth Jane Bug, a free woman of color, "has been anxious, apparently, for more than twelve months to become my slave" and is tonight [1 December 1859] "again persuading Mrs Hill & myself to take her as a slave in connection with a child about 11 months old." Hill asks McGowen to "have the kindness to attend to it or inform me what course to pursue." He further states that "you Can Consider this as a petition from her to the above effect."
Result: Referred to committee on colored population.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
