GASR_Colonial_LHP_176211_176212

[Nov 9, 1762] [crossed out] [1763] [end crossed out] 1671 MSS Recd by office of &c To the Worshipful the Speaker and Gentlemen of the [strike - House] of [strike - Burgesses?] Assembly.

The petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Counties of Northampton Edgecombe and Granville.

Humbly sheweth

That by one Act of Assembly Pas'd in the year 1723 Intituled "An Act for an Additional "Tax on all free Negroes, Mulattoes, Muftees and such "Persons Male & Female, as now are and hereafter shall be "intermarried with any such Persons resident in this "Government." Amongst other Things it was enacted "That all free Negroes &c. that were and shou'd thereafter be Inhabitants of this Province Male & Female being of the Age of twelve Years & upwards shou'd be deemed Tythables and as such should yearly pay the same Levies and Taxes as other Tythable Inhabitants.

That many Inhabitants of the s'd Counties who are Free Negroes & Mulattoes are persons of Probity & good Demeanor and cheerfully contribute towards the Discharge of every Public Duty injoined them by Law. But by reason of being obliged by the s'd Act of Assembly to pay levies for their Wives and Daughters as there in mentioned are greatly Impoverished and many of them rendered unable to support themselves and Families with the common Necessaries of Life.

Wherefore your Petitioners would humbly pray in behalf of thes'd Free Negroes etc. That so much of the said recited Act as compels such of them as Inter marry with those of their own complection to pay Taxes for their Wives & Daughters may be repealed Or

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Or that they may be otherwise relieved as to your Worships in your great Wisdom seem meet.

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall pray etc.

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Edgcomb County Jos Jno: Alston Willm Anderson Thos Wood John Jones Augustin Curtis John nolland Benj'n Nevill John Cheney John Fisk James Brown Wm Irby Joseph Strickland Benjn Sherrod Jacob Strickland Nathan Joyner Ebenezer Folsom Wm: adams William Richason Rich McKinne 4a [rest of page is torn off and missing]

Petn of Sundry Inhabitants of Northampton Edgeomb & Granville Counties

[Rd?] Cogdell Junr

North Carolina ss An Estimate of the Allowances due and Payable to the Members of Assembly Clerk and Officers thereof and others this Present Session held at New=Bern in November & December 1762 being the first Session of this Present Assembly.