Free woman of color, Judith, age about thirty-four, was emancipated in her late master Isaac Gum's will for her "good conduct and faithful services." Judith, however, has two small children who remain slaves. She does not wish the leave them behind in slavery. The petitioners ask that she be permitted to remain in Virginia. They represent that they "deem it a hard case where the mother is compelled to leave her children—her early friends—the place of her nativity and those scenes which time has endeared."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
