Petition #21281209

• Pasquotank County, North Carolina. filing started circa 1812.
• Court: Common Pleas
• Salutation: To the Worshipful the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Pasquotank

Abstract

Wishing to "retire in peace with his Old Companion," Harry Knox seeks to free his sixty-year-old slave brother Primus Knox.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Bond, Harry Knox, Hugh Knox, and William T. Muse to the Court, 10 December 1812
• Pages of related documents: 2

2 people are documented within petition 21281209

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Free person of color
• 1 Petitioner

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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
• Purchase of freedom
• Seniors (FPOC)
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Frees own family (FPOC)
• Family kept together (Black)