Jane Dawson, alias Jones, also known as Jinny, fears that she and her three children are about to be "seized and taken to the Southern States & sold into slavery." She understands that Joshua Swain, who purchased her and her children as slaves, has not paid William Hogan, and consequently plans "to run her, & her children off & sell them, or to return her & her children to said William Hogan, who, she verily believes would send her to the South & sell her, as he is engaged in the Traffic of Slaves." She asks for a writ compelling Swain and Hogan to put up security, and desist from "carrying your Petitioner and her children or any of them beyond the limits of this state." In a related deposition, Jane claims that she is the granddaughter of a white woman named Polly Jones, who, in consequence of her having given birth to a mulatto child, eloped with a man named Jarvis Jones and left her child with a man named Robert Carteret. Several deponents in the case testify in support of Jane's claim regarding her white grandmother. Several others testify against her claim.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
