Richmond resident Ann Pritchard stipulated in her last will and testament that her slave, Dolly Woodson, should be emancipated and that she should receive the residual of her estate after payment of all the debts and of a $500 bequest to a male relative. Following Pritchard's death, George Crump, the executor of Pritchard's estate, seeks an act of emancipation and permission for Woodson to remain in Virginia. Dolly "is now upwards of fifty years old, is infirm and subject to fits of frequent recurrence." In a related document, the late Pritchard's attending physician testifies that he had, over the course of several years, "abundant opportunity of witnessing the deportment of her servant woman Dolly—as a slave she was unexceptionable in her conduct and indeed upon many occasions, she exhibited an affection and tenderness rarely if ever surpassed in the more exalted walks of life."
Result: Referred to committee.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
