Austin Gresham, administrator of the estate of Henry A. Burge and the husband of Burge's widow, asks to sell an eleven-year-old slave named Nathan. Grisham declares that "for three or four years back, this boy, Nathan, has been in the constant habit of running away: that he has employed all the means he could, himself, devise, to prevent it; that he has obtained the aid of other experienced persons to the same object, but has failed in every expedient" and that "the habit is increasing." Gresham therefore prays "that you would pass a law directing him the sd negro boy Nathan to be sold."
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