<petition><petition_analysis_number>20379507</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20379507</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>Sussex</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>18</file_day><file_month>11</file_month><file_year>1795</file_year><filing_court>County</filing_court><end_date_circa>y</end_date_circa><end_month>11</end_month><end_year>1795</end_year><ending_court>County</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Stephen Mitchell seeks permission "to send and transport" his slave Sam "out of this State."  Mitchell asserts that Sam, a conjurer, "hath poisened one of his Negros" and is "now in the public prison of the County."  The petitioner also notes that Sam "keeps as a wife a white woman contrary to the Laws of the Land."</abstract><subjects><subject>Jails/Workhouses</subject><subject>Poisoning </subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject></subjects></petition>