Residents of Cumberland County ask the court to appoint a patrol committee to secure "the services of young men in the Neighborhood, who will be willing to act without compensation" to move against the "forty or fifty Negro Men" who have "lately been quarter'd" in the area and who are committing "thefts and depredations."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina