Edenton resident Gustavus Adolphus Johnson, a free person of color, asks for license to emancipate his wife Elizabeth and their three children: Mary, age six, Ann, four, and Charles, nine months. Johnson purchased Elizabeth from James R. Bent, the county sheriff, in 1814. Johnson argues that his wife "hath always, conducted and behaved herself to your Petitioner and to all other persons in an orderly and proper manner that she is a woman of correct deportment, dutiful to your petitioner and every way worthy of his bounty."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
