Dick, "at present confined in the Common Gaol of the County," represents that he "has been taken up by Sundry Persons supposing him to have been a Slave the roperty of John Smith one of the people called Quakers and illegally liberated by him." He further states that his "grandmother, Betty was an Indian, a free woman by the Laws of Nature." Dick, assisted by John Smith as his next friend, asks for an inquiry "into the fact of he natural freedom of your petr."
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
