Wayne County, NC - William Lancaster, 1786

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WILLIAM LANCASTER - QUAKER

To the Honorable, the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina
The humble petition of William Sanders Lancaster of Wayne County
Sheweth
              That your petitioners Father William Lancaster, of Wayne 
county aforesaid, being one of the people called Quakers and making a 
matter of Conscience the keeping or holding any persons in slavery, hath 
according to the Custom of some among the Society of people called Quakers, 
Manumited a Certain Negroe woman named Patience & her Children Sam, Lelah, 
Rachel & Priss who are now going at large & under no controul of your 
petitioners father or any of his Family, as your petitioner humbly conceives, 
contrary to law. And as your petitioner hath been in his infancy at great 
labour and pains in raising the said Negroes, with flattering hopes that 
one day he might receive some advantage from the same by the Gift of his 
Father of some one or more of the said Negroes And as your said petitioner 
is not so tied down by his religions principles (he having renounced 
Quakerism) He humbly prays that the Title of the aforesaid Negroes, may be 
vested in him by such mode as your Honors, in your wisdom shall think proper 
to Adopt. And your petitioner shall ever pray &c
Fayetteville
December 13th 1786.
                                           Wm. Sanders Lancaster

Source 
General Assembly Session Records
November 1786-January 1787
Box 4

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