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Augusta County
Slavery-related Petitions to the Legislature
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Petitioner |
Locality |
Date |
Description |
| Fitch, Walker | Augusta County | 1861/01/07 | Free negro asks to be returned to slavery under Michael G. Harman. Includes affidavits. |
| Gorrell, Agnes | Augusta County | 1811/12/12 | Asks for permission to bring two slave girls into Augusta or Rockingham who were left petitioner by her husband, Robert Gorrell, or South Carolina. |
| Inhabitants | Augusta County | 1831/12/09 | Ask for the general government to raise and appropriate money for the transport of free negroes to the coast of Africa and to purchase slaves and transport them likewise. |
| Johnson, Elizabeth | Augusta County | 1816/12/14 | Widow of John Boswell Johnson asks that she be allowed to retain a slave brought into the state from Tennessee. |
| Matthews, Sampson & Sinclair, Alexander | Augusta County | 1777/06/02 | Ask that the stateprocure a sum for negroes to spin, weave, etc., in petitioners sail-duck manufactory in Staunton. |
| Price, James | Augusta County | 1811/12/17 | Asks for permission to bring slaves from Baltimore into Virginia. |
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