Guilford County NcArchives Court.....Fields - Imprisonment, Jeremiah 1776
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1776

Petition from Mary Turner et al. concerning the imprisonment of their husbands
Turner, Mary; Et Al.
October 12, 1776 
Volume 10, Page 841

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

To the Honourable Council of Safety now Setting at Halifax.

Your Peticioners humbly Sheweth.

That whereas our husbands William field, Robert field, Joseph field, Jeremiah 
field, Semor York, Stephen Sisny, Samuell Diviney, Fredrick Craft, Robert 
Turner, all of Guilford County and province of north Carolina was made 
prisoners in and about the tenth Day of Feabury Last, we your humble 
petticioners beg that you would with an Eye of pitty and Compashon take their 
and our Deplorable Condition into your wise Consideration and that you will 
Restore them back again to us upon Som Reasonable Terms, that they Can Comply 
with as we hope you are Sensible that it is out of their power to Doe any 
Dammage to the Common Cause & where they are not allowe the necesserys of Life 
as prisoners of warr nor the Liberty that prisoners of warr have; therefore we 
hope that your honours will out of pitty and Compashion to us and our Small 
familys Releas our Husbands from their Bands or if your Honours Cannot Comply 
with this our petticion we Still adress you further that you would admit of 
their being Removed in to the Province again So that we may be of Som 
asistance to their wants and we hope that your honours will Doe us the feaver 
to apoint the place where they are to be Removed to as Conveniant to us as it 
will allow we made our aplication to the County Committee and their advise was 
to petticion your Honours and they Did not Doubt but it would gain the 
Desirable Efect. So we Commit it to your wisdoms to point out of Such ways and 
meashures as in your wisdoms Shall Seem meet, and your Petticioners shall Ever 
pray.

MARY TURNER 
CATHEREN CRAFT 
DOLAY SISNY 
HENNAY DIVINEY 
LYDE FIELD
MARY FIELD 
LYDE FIELD 
ANN FIELD 
SILVENEY YORK 

October the 12th, 1776. 

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