Seven neighbors and relatives of Abigail and Phebe Morrell oppose their petition "praying your honorable body to pass a Law authorising them to emancipate certain negroes named in their petition." They point out that the said Morrells "are far advanced in Life perhaps seventy years of age" and that they were "no Doubt persuaded to Liberate them by the negroes themselves contrary to their own will." They further charge that said slaves first designed "to get their Liberty and then pursuade the old women to will them the premises on which they now Live and all the personal property of the Estate at their [Decease] which would be prejudicial to your petitioners." They therefore pray "your honorable body to ... Reject the petition of the sd Abigail & Phebe Morrell."
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