Warren County, NC - Mouring Ivins Petition to Emancipate Husband, 1806

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To the worshipful the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
of the County of Warren. The memorial of Mouring Ivins humbly representing
sheweth unto your worships - that your memorialist is a free person of
colour residing in the County aforesaid - that she early in life marryed
and connected herself with a negro man that the property of William West -
that by him she has eight children - that sometime in the year 1804 your
memorialist by her sole care and industry accumalated money enough to
purchase her said husband Nat of his then proprietor William West aforesaid
and accordingly received from the said William West a Bill of sale which 
is of record, transfering to her your memorialist the absolute right & title
to the said Negro Nat - your memorialist further states that the said Negro 
man Nat has ever conducted himself towards her as a faithful and affectionate
husband - that in all circumstances as well in sickness and in health he has 
manifested to your memorialist & her children the most unceasing care & 
solitude - that by his industry & attention he has enabled your memorialist 
to support her children free from want and as respectably as any persons in 
their condition - your memorialist in consideration of the premiss and test 
upon the death of your memorialist the said negro man Nat should by the 
policy of the State or her children & their representatives be reduced unto 
a state of slavery prays that your worshipful body will free & emancipate 
the said Nat by the name of Nathaniel Ivins & your memorialist as in duty 
will ever pray

To
Mr. Nathaniel Macon

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To the honorabell gentel men whome this may cum befor - there is a negro man 
by the name of Natt which said negro I ras'd from a childe until I solde him 
to Mouring Ivins and she the said Ivins has a disior all togeather to set 
him free if yor Honner gentel men pleas to take it in to consideraticion I 
will enform you on my honner the correcton of said negro Natt as wel as I 
can - he is a engenias hand and common about a plantaticion or as you 
genrally find and an extrodonary shue maker and verry endusstrus and while 
he lieved with me I entrusted abundance of buisness in his hands and he 
proformd his duty verry faithfully to me - so that I entended to sett him 
free at my deth but his haveing a free wife and childrean I solde him to her 
for butt trifeling - I am gentelmen your frend - given under my hand this 
23rd day of august 1806
                                                William West

To
Mr Nathanial Macon
& other gentelmen &c
in Warren County North Carolina

Source:
Nathaniel Macon Papers
NC Archives
PC 10.2

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[Nathaniel Macon was a Democratic Republican of Warren County; 
Congressman (1791-1815), and U.S. Senator (1815-1828]

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