Newhanover County NcArchives Court.....Freeman - Emancipate, Phillis 1787
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1787

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1788
November 03, 1788 - December 06, 1788
Volume 24, Pages 952 - 994

CHAPTER XVIII.

An Act to Emancipate a certain Negro Slave named Phillis, late the Property of 
George Jacobs, of the town of Wilmington, Deceased.

Whereas it is represented to the General Assembly that the aforesaid George 
Jacobs, deceased, in his last illness, did earnestly request that his negro 
slave named Phillis should be liberated for her great attention to her said 
master during her continuance with him, and more especially for her care and 
assiduity in his last illness: In order therefore to carry into effect the 
dying request of the said George Jacobs, deceased:

I. Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and 
it is hereby Enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the 
passing of this Act, the aforesaid negro woman named Phillis, shall be 
emancipated and forever discharged from her bondage, in as full and ample 
manner as if she had been born free; any law, usage or custom to the contrary 
notwithstanding: And the said negro woman shall forever hereafter be known by 
the name of Phillis Freeman.


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