Petition #21282506

• Perquimans County, North Carolina. April 1825. - circa 1825.
• Court: Superior
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Judge of the Superior Court of Law for the County aforesaid

Abstract

Harrison Douglass, a free man of color, married Annis, a slave woman belonging to Elizabeth L. Blair of Edenton, who later gave Douglass "a Deed of Gift for the said girl Annis & with a hope that she might be liberated." Explaining that she has "always supported an irreproachable character," Douglass asks the court to issue an emancipation decree.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 1
• Related documents: Bond, Harrison Douglass, et al., to County, 21 April 1825; Order, ca. 1825
• Pages of related documents: 2

3 people are documented within petition 21282506

• 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, Slave Records 1759-1864

Subjects

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