Admit it… you can’t resist a “search”
Summary: Reproduces a collection of approx. 15,000 petitions assembled
by the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina at Greensboro from state archives in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia and Maryland, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
an example…
1782
0080 (Accession # 21278202). Chowan County, North Carolina. Anne Anderson, a widow, sues Samuel Kerr, her grandson, for debt. She seeks payment of £1,269 for the twelve slaves she hired to him during the late 1760s and 1770s. She notes that Kerr now resides outside the United States in British-held New York City.
I suspect this is the widow of Joseph Anderson of Chowan… the attorney.
………”British-held New York City”……..
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