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Subject: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] 1821 PA Petition
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:56:37 EDT

I don't subscribe to the PA mailing list. Maybe someone could forward it. I
just thought it was interesting in general and wanted to share.

Claudia

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/
[Hillsborough Recorder excerpts, 31 Jan 1821, Hillsborough, NC]
> [transcribed by Mark Murphy, 26 Jun 2001]


> A petition is before the legislature of Pennsylvania for a law to
> render
> null the marriage of a white woman with a man of colour, and to punish
> the latter and the
> magistrate who marries them.  The petition state, that a number of
> persons of
> colour have settled in different parts of Pennsylvania, and that they
> have succeeded in
> various attempts to seduce into marriage the minor children of white
> inhabitants.
> *****

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