One hundred thirty-five residents of the city of Norfolk implore the General Assembly to allow Randall Green, a free person of color, to remain in the state. They state that Seth March manumitted said Green in 1845 and that "for many years prior to and for the time since his manumission ... [Green] has maintained during the whole period, the character of an orderly, peaceable, industrious, and highly useful man, enjoying the confidence of this community for his integrity and humility." They further represent that Green "has been for 22 years the exemplary husband of a slave woman the property of a venerable widow lady of great respectability ... and from long habit, the said Randall Green has become an indispensable aid in the discharge of important offices to this venerable and infirm lady." They therefore pray "that a law be enacted, permitting the said Randall Green, a manumitted slave to continue to reside during good behaviour, in the city of Norfolk."
Result: Referred to committee for courts of justice.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
