Petition #21279704

• Pasquotank County, North Carolina. March 1797. - circa 0 .
• Court: County
• Salutation: To the worshipful the Justices, of the County Court of Pasquotank now setting

Abstract

Slave Jacob Stephenson, with his owner's permission, asks to be emancipated. He has "done many services to his former masters that were meritorious and as far as his master believes has always conducted himself as well as any person of his color."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Certificate, Jonathan Bundy, Daniel Shinley, Joseph Morris, et al., ca. 1797
• Pages of related documents: 1

3 people are documented within petition 21279704

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 2 Others

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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
• Sues for freedom (enslaved)