Thirty-four citizens of Goochland County represent that Dr. John Morris "has been for the last ten years or more afflicted by a disease of the spine, which has rendered him utterly incapable of walking ... in consequence of such disease he is altogether incapable of attending to out door business of any kind whatever." They further reveal that said Morris "is the owner of some fifty or sixty slaves and a large plantation" and that his four sons all volunteered "for the War." The petitioners assert that Morris's overseer "has also been called out with the militia and unless he be relieved by your interposition will leave home for the seat of war in a few days." They therefore pray that William P. Crowder, the said overseer, be exempted "from service in the militia so long as he continues in his present employment."
Result: Discharged.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
