Granville County NcArchives Court.....Petition, Tax On Free Negroes 1771 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Ardrey n/a September 14, 2014, 10:00 pm Source: Colonial Records Written: 1771 Petition from inhabitants of Granville County concerning the tax on free negroes Howard, David; Et Al. 1771 Volume 09, Pages 97-98 [From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.] To the Honble the Speaker and Gentn of the House of Assembly The Petition of the Inhabitants of Granville County Humbly Sheweth, that by the Act of Assembly Concerning Tythables, it is among other things enacted that all free Negroes & mulato women and all wives of free Negroes & mulatoes are Declared Tythables & Chargeable for Defraying the Public County & Parish Levys of this province, which Your Petitioners Humbly Conceive is highly Derogatory of the Rights of Freeborn Subjects—Your Petitioners therefore Pray that an Act may pass Exempting Such free negroes & mulatoe women and all wives other than Slaves of free negroes & mulatoes from being Listed as Tythables & from paying any Public County or Parish Levys and Your Petitioners shall ever pray &ca. David Howard John Knott James Langston Thos Philpot John Williams, T. R. Richd Person Francis Howard John Smith Charles More Christopher Hunt William Washington James Caudill Isom Caudill Carter Hedgebeth Francis Deavenport Cutbird Hudson Beniamin Bass Lewis Anderson Edward Bass Davie Michell (negro) Rubin Bass Lawrance Pettiford William Chavis Samuel Huckabay Lewis Collins Thomas Butler John Gwin George Whitlock Humphrey Davis Josiah Stovall Ben Bearden Lovet Gates Thos Owen James Hester Nathan Sanders John Wilkerson James Nowil Thomas Head John Head Martha Knight Nathan Chiles Benjamin Hendricks Willis Roberts James Williamson William Hunt Thos Lowe Isham Johnson Isaac White Isaac Head Joseph Hill William Cawthon Wm Wallis Jno Tuder Jno Badget Groves Howard Aquila Kohn Gibea Chavis Shadrach Roberts Thomas Wellingham William Wharton John Hart John Harris Robert Downey Jonathan Knight John Fullilove Daniel Standard William Head George Fagans Charles Spaulding Henry Spaulding William Mathews James Downey Richd Burton Benjamin Glaze John Davis File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/granville/court/petition3209wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb