Twelve residents of Perquimans County request that Doctor Tom be permitted to free his wife Philliss for "Merritorious Services." She is "very Servicable in the neighbourhood both as a Midwife and Doctress," they explain, and has performed "Some Surpriseing Cures." The petitioners inform the court that Doctor Tom had purchased his wife.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
