About 1813, Edmond Pasteur purchased his freedom from John C. Stanly. About 1819, he had saved sufficient money to purchase his wife Dinah and his daughter Sarah, "then an infant at the breast." In 1827, fearing his eldest son Richard Pasteur was about to be "carried off in speculation beyond the limits of this State" he purchased him as well. Now Pasteur seeks to free the members of his family. Related documents and outside sources reveal that John C. Stanly, Edmond Pasteur's last owner, was an affluent free man of color of mixed race.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
