Petition #21281403

• Pasquotank County, North Carolina. filing started December 1814.
• Court: County
• Salutation: To the Worshipful the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions held for the County of Pasquotank December Term 1814

Abstract

Jenney Pearson purchased her husband Richard from Robert McMorine through the latter's attorney, James Shannonhouse; she now seeks to free him and give him the name Richard Pearson.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #21280019, #21280121; Certificate, Thomas Jordan, Thomas Davis, Mathew Jackson, et al., 1 December 1814; Bond, Jenney Pearson, William T. Muse, Miles Davis to the Court, 7 December 1814
• Pages of related documents: 2

5 people are documented within petition 21281403

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

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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
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Frees own family (FPOC)
• Family separated (Black)
• Family kept together (Black)