Petition #21200003

• Pasquotank County, North Carolina. filing started circa 9999.
• Court: Common Pleas
• Salutation: To the Worshipful the County Court of Pasquotank

Abstract

Free black George Bonner seeks to free his wife Charity from slavery. Bonner states that for years Charity has "conducted herself in a very meritorious manner." He informs the court that he received Charity as a gift from her previous owner, to whose family she had been a nurse for many years.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Pages of related documents: 0

3 people are documented within petition 21200003

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Free person of color
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• Records of the County Court, Slaves and Free Persons of Color 1733-1866

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Skills (enslaved)
• Frees own family (FPOC)