(In 1787, a law was passed in Delaware prohibiting the importation or exportation of slaves. Slave-holders could keep in slavery the people that they already had, but were not permitted to sell them outside of Delaware. And no new slaves were permitted to be brought into the State.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Delaware Location: Unknown, DE Year: 1788 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Henry Ward Pearce White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: Maryland resident Henry Ward Pearce was unaware of a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves. Pearce owns land in Delaware and had sent two male slaves to work the land. He asks for an exemption from the law. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: referred to committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honorable the Legislature of the Delaware State Location: Kent, DE Year: 1790 Petitioner(s) Color Gender McKimmy Smack White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: Owed a debt by a resident of Maryland and obliged to take three slaves as payment--a man, a woman and a girl--McKimmy Smack, a resident of Delaware, seeks exemption from the Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: referred to committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honorable Assembly of the Delaware State Location: Sussex, DE Year: 1797 Petitioner(s) Color Gender James Colliar White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: James Colliar inherited property which is partially in Delaware and partially in Maryland; "the bildings and Improvements is on the part that lyes in Sussex" County, Delaware. He seeks exemption from a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission for his "sundry" slaves to reside in Delaware and work the land on both sides of the state line. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: House: read ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: The Hon.le the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met Location: Sussex, DE Year: 1799 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Curtis Morris White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: Ibba Abstract: Curtis Morris seeks exemption from a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to bring Ibba, a slave given to his daughter, from Maryland into Delaware. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: read, referred to committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honourable the Senate and Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met Location: Unknown, DE Year: 1800 Petitioner(s) Color Gender William Hughtett White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: John; Peter; Thomas; Dinah Abstract: William Hughtett seeks exemption from a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to transfer four slaves from Maryland into Delaware. Hughtett owned the four slaves--John, Peter, Thomas, and Dinah--for a number of years. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: read ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met Location: New Castle, DE Year: 1805 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Thomas M. Forman White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: Thomas Forman owns land in both Maryland and Delaware. He asks for permission to bring his slaves from Maryland into Delaware. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: read, referred to committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware Location: Kent, DE Year: 1810 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Charles Hamm White Male William K. Lockwood White Male J. B. Wootten White Male Jacob Furbee White Male Wesley McDowell White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: A group of slave owners complain that slaves filing freedom petitions cost masters money. The owners not only lost the labor of their bondsman or bondswoman but also were forced to pay court expenses. They seek an amendment to the law to require "that in all cases where petitions for freedom are filed in vacation, they shall be subscribed on behalf of the Petitioner by some substantial person residing in the State." Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: House: read, referred to committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honourable the Legislature of the State of Delaware Location: Unknown, DE Year: 1811 Petitioner(s) Color Gender William Pearce White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: William Pearce, a resident of Kent County in Maryland, owns woodlands in New Castle County, Delaware. He seeks exemption from a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves. He asks permission for his slaves to cut firewood, timber, and rails in Delaware and transport the wood into Maryland. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: Senate: read ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of Delaware Location: Kent, DE Year: 1811 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Francis C. Hall White Male Henry Tilghman White Male Edward Tilghman III White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: No named slave Abstract: Francis Hall married Sarah Tilghman of Maryland and acquired slaves in Delaware. Hall seeks exemption from a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to remove "said Negro Slaves, or a part of them" from Delaware to Maryland. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result:  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed:  Location: Sussex, DE Year: 1814 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Isaac Cannon White Male Hetty Fookis White Female Elijah Fookis White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: Sampson Abstract: Isaac Cannon of Sussex County married the daughter of Elijah Fookis, a resident of Worcester County in Maryland. Fookis expressed his wish to give his daughter "a Negro Boy by the Name of Sampson." Cannon seeks exemption from a Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to remove Sampson from Maryland into Delaware. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: House: read, referred to committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Delaware in General Assembly met Location: Sussex, DE Year: 1826 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Robert Rauleigh White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: George; Thomas; Henry; Rachel; Jerry; Esther; Bill; Hannah; Horace; Mariah; Ennals Abstract: Robert Rauleigh owns plantations in Dorchester County, Maryland, and Sussex County, Delaware. He states that his slave labor force is divided between the two counties. He seeks exemption from the Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission for his slaves to work the land in both states. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: House: read, referred ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the honable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware Location: New Castle, DE Year: 1827 Petitioner(s) Color Gender Joseph Hossinger White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: Jacob Abstract: Joseph Hossinger acquired the slave Jacob through the death of his brother-in-law, late of Kent County, Maryland. Hossinger seeks exemption from the Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to remove Jacob from Maryland into Delaware. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result:  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Whom Addressed: To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met Location: Unknown, DE Year: 1829 Petitioner(s) Color Gender William Duhamel White Male Subject: slave owners Slave[s]: George Abstract: Delaware resident William Duhamel owns a Maryland slave named George. The petitioner seeks exemption from the Delaware law designed to prevent the importation and exportation of slaves and asks permission to bring George into Delaware. Location Description: General Assembly, Legislative Papers Petition Result: House: read, referred ------------------------------------------------------------------------