Nelly Hoomes, a free woman of color, represents that William Marshall freed her "some years ago" but that said deed of manumission "was never perfected according to the forms and requisites of Law until the 5th of December 1832 when the Deed of emancipation granting freedom not only to your Petitioner and her daughter Margaret but also to Bartlett Sam and Pleasants three other children of your Petitioner born since her right to freedom accrued was regularly executed and recorded." Hoomes laments that "by the laws of the Land she and her infant children the oldest of whom is only twelve years of age and the youngest not yet four years old must be banished from this Country and torn from the husband and the father or become slaves again." She further reveals that "she has a well grounded hope that in a few years by the Liberality of the master of her husband and of some of her friends, her husband will acquire his freedom and can then remove with his family." The petitioner therefore prays "to remain in this State and to reside in the City of Richmond for some eight or ten years or for such period as to you may seem most fit & proper."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
