A group of seventy-five Wheeling residents ask that Richard Morris, a free black man about fifty-six years old, be permitted to remain in the state with his family. They have known Morris for thirteen years and he is, they note, "honest, faithful, laborious, respectful and orderly." He is, in short, a "worthy and inoffensive old man."
Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
