Petition #21281301

• Pasquotank County, North Carolina. June 1813. - June 1813.
• Court: County
• Salutation: To the worshipful the County Court of Pasquotank

Abstract

A group of fifteen Pasquotank County residents ask that the slave Jonas, considerably advanced in years and recently purchased by Ruth Evergain, his wife, be manumitted. Jonas, they assert, has "allways Conducted himself in an orderley Manner to his Master as well as to us your Petitioners."

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #21279903, #21279905, #21280704, #21281009, #21281302, #21281602, #21282201
• Pages of related documents: 0

18 people are documented within petition 21281301

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Free person of color
• 15 Petitioners
• 1 Other

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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

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Seniors (enslaved)
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Frees own family (FPOC)
• Family kept together (Black)