Petition #11683716

• Stafford County, Virginia. filing started February 17, 1837.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Delegates of the State of Virginia

Abstract

Freed by the will of his late owner, who also bequeathed him a ten-acre farm, sixty-year-old Daniel Hughes asks to remain in Virginia. He would "as soon be again enslaved as to be banished the few remaining years of his life from his wife & Children and place of nativity."

Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Certificate, John Stone, et al., ca., 1837; Certificates, George and George F. Carney [?], ca. 1837; W. S. [?] to John W. Williams, 27 January 1837
• Pages of related documents: 2

2 people are documented within petition 11683716

• 1 Free person of color
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

• Legislative Petitions

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Property owners (Black)
• Bequest (enslaved)
• State residency issues (FPOC)
• Enticing (enslaved)