Petition #21200010

• Craven County, North Carolina. filing started circa 9999.
• Court: Superior
• Salutation: To the Honourable the Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Craven

Abstract

Stephen Forbes asks the court to emancipate his fifty-year-old slave Lettice. During her long life of servitude, Forbes states, Lettice has always been honest, faithful, and submissive. She has never violated his trust. Her "diligence & fidelity has been remarkable," Forbes adds [date(s) of slave ownership cannot be determined in this document].

Result: Granted.

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

2 people are documented within petition 21200010

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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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 Negroes 1775-1861

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Skills (enslaved)
• White attachment (enslaved)