Statewide County NcArchives Court.....Allen - Emancipate, Betty 1787
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1787

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1787
1787 
Volume 24, Pages 885 - 951

Whereas it hath been represented to this General Assembly by the memorial of 
John Allen, a free man of mixed blood, that he hath purchased a mulatto woman 
named Betty and her child named Mary, which woman he has long lived with and 
considered as his wife, and praying that the General Assembly would be pleased 
to emancipate and set free the said mulatto woman and her child:

Be it therefore Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said mulatto 
woman named Betty and her child Mary, shall be and they and each of them are 
hereby emancipated and made free, and they and each of them may hereafter take 
and use the sirname of Allen, and are hereby declared to be able and capable 
in law to possess and enjoy every right, privilege and immunity in as full and 
ample manner as they could or might have done if they had been born free.


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