Petition #21282505

• Franklin County, North Carolina. filing started March 1825.
• Court: Superior
• Salutation: To the Honorable Judge of the Superior Court of Law and Equity for the County of Franklin

Abstract

John Mitchell, a free man of color and a blacksmith, purchased his slave wife Polly but fears that following his death some of his many relatives in the area would "claim the right of property by kinship and endeavour to sell his wife." Mitchell says that Polly is "not only among the best of Slaves but among the best of wives," and asks that she be manumitted according to law.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Certificate, William Burlingham, John Rowan, et al., 15 March 1825; Bond, John Mitchell, T. Terrell to the County, 11 April 1825
• Pages of related documents: 2

3 people are documented within petition 21282505

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

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• Records of the County Court, Miscellaneous Records 1820-1860

Subjects

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