Free black Len Kenchen took the slave Rebecca as his wife more than fifteen years prior to the filing of his petition. He purchased her some five years later her owner, Robert Armstead of Scotland Neck, for £45 Virginia currency. Now the couple is old and infirm, and Kenchen asks to free Rebecca who has been "a dutyful wife and a faithful Servant."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
