Harry McClennan, a free person of color, fears that his former owner William Leigh plans to "seize upon the body of your Petitioner & remove him to some foreign Country beyond the jurisdiction of this Worshipful Court." If so, he would be "utterly deprived of the benefit of the law and of those natural & given rights to which the Citizens of this Country are entitled." He asks for relief.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
