Ann G. Daly, administratrix of the late John Daly, Esq. and guardian to his minor children, ask permission to emancipate a twenty-year-old mulatto slave name Mary. According to Ann Daly, and her co-petitioners, Robert Donnell, his wife Eliza Donnell, and John Sears, Mary "has always been reputed to be" John Daly's daughter. She "is a girl of excellent character," the petitioners write, and is "industrious Sober & honest & has always behaved dutifully and affectionately towards the whole family."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
