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Hembrough, Philip : Petition to Remain in the Commonwealth, Richmond City
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of his emacipation, intermarried with a free woman of color, and from that circumstance also, must feel the deepest interest in being permitted to reside here.
Attached by ties so strong to this place, and enjoying as he does a good reputation, the Undersigned are humbly of opinion, that the best principles of the soundest policy require that the Boon for which Philip Hembro Gallego is a Petitioner, would be extended to him. A favor of such value granted to the Petitioner, will it is hoped & beleived, be gratefully remembered by his Parents & himself, and may render them as far as may depend on their humble exertions, faithful sentinels over the public welfare.
Richmond 19. Decr. 1814
Jno Graham J L Gallego Geo [Pritchett?] Jos Trent Carter B Page L {illegible] A C McRae P. N Nicholas Thos Ritchie W B C Williams
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Subscriber names continued Wm Foushee Jr Jas M Mclung Wm [illegible] W Foushee William Price W. M. [Randolph?] J Gibbons Robert M McKim N Sheppard Wm. [Fitzwilson?] W. Potter J B Dandride Wm Dabney P [illegible] Jas [illegible] Peter Crutchfield John Campbell Jas Wickham Wm Munford
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This entry made oath before me a magistrate for the said aty that he lives opposite the court house in the city of Richmond, & was requested by Hembrough Gallego a free person of colour to notice written notification of the intention of Philip Hembrogh Gallego to apply to the court of Husting's for the said city for permission to reside within the said city This was on or about 27nd February last on which day the said notification was posted up at the door of the court house. That he has frequently [illegible] that time in that situation. Given under my hand at Richmond, this 9th day of April 1816.
Wm. Munford
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I Jesse Bowles of Richmond have this day received from John Graham of said city the sum of Four hundred dollars Being payment in full for Phill a man slave aged nineteen years of age & son of Dilce (Phill was born my property) The title to the said slave Phill I hereby engage to warrant and defend to the said John Graham his heirs & assigns against myself my heirs and the claims of all persons whatsoever
Given under my hand & seal in Richmond this 12th June 1810.
Jesse Bowles {seal}
Witness
John Trower
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[physical seal]
Bowles to Graham
Bill of Sale
1812 May 13 proved by one wits & OR
(1 Graham to Galleo B. Sale
1812 July 13. proved by 2 wits & OR
1810 Phill (Bowles) [illegible] 19
$.400 12th June
I John Graham this 3'd April 1812 do hereby assign all my right & title to the within slave named Phill unto Hembrough Gallego without recourse
Jno Graham
Test Th C Howard Robt Douthat
At a Court of Hustings held for the City of Richmond at the Courthouse the 13'' day of May 1812.
This bill of sale was acknowledged by Jesse Bowles, a party thereto, and ordered to be recorded. Teste Th C Howard clk
Recorded & exam'd
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AN ACT, To amend an Act entitled an Act concerning the emancipation of Slaves: [PASSED JANUARY 24th, 1816.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That any slave who, since the first day of May, eighteen hundred and six, hath been emancipated for extraordinary merit, and any slave who may be hereafter emancipated for extraordinary merit, shall be at liberty to apply to the Court of any country or corporation within this Commonwealth, for permission to reside within such county or corporation: And the Court, to which such application shall be made, a majority of the acting magistrates being present, or having been summoned for that purpose, shall have power, upon satisfactory proof made to them of such extraordinary merit of the applicant, and of his or her general good character and conduct, to grant to him or her permission to remain within this Commonwealth, and to reside within such country or corporation: provided, however, that no such permission shall be granted, unless notice of the application shall have been posted at the front door of the courthouse of the county or corporation for at least five weeks immediately preceding such application. Every application made as aforesaid shall be duly entered of record: and, if the permission be granted, there shall at the same time be entered of record, as the authority therefor, the general good character of the applicant, and the extraordinary merit for which he or she may have been emancipated; otherwise any permission granted by this Court shall be merely void. A permission so granted and recorded shall authorise the person, in whose favor it is, to reside, as a free person, within the limits of the county or corporation, the court of which shall have granted it, and shall be a full protection to such person travelling in any part of the Commonwealth; but it shall not authorize him or her to reside within any other county or corporation. When permission shall have been so granted to any emancipated slave to reside as a free person within any county or corporation of this Commonwealth, on account of extraordinary merit as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the same court to extend the like permission to his or her emancipated wife or husband, or to his or her emancipated children: provided, that a like notice of the application be posted at the door of the courthouse; and that satisfactory evidence be adduced to the court of the general good character and conduct of such wife or husband and of such children. When any application for leave of residence within this Commonwealth, made by any emancipated slave, shall be rejected, the rejection thereof shall be recorded, and shall be final; insomuch that no appeal shall be taken therefrom, and that any such permission granted by any Court there after shall be null and void.
II. Be it further enacted, That, if any emancipated slave, having obtained leave of residence as aforesaid shall afterwards be convicted, by the verdict of a jury and the judgment of a Court, of any offence against the laws of this Commonwealth, it shall be lawful for any county or corporation court, having granted such leave, a majoribeen duly summoned to shew cause against it, to revoke the leave of residence granted as aforesaid, if to them it shall seem expedient. If, after such revocation, such emancipated slave shall remain within this Commonwealth more than twelve months, he or she shall forfeit his or her right to freedom and may be apprehended and sold in the manner provided by the tenth section of the Act, entitled, “An Act to amend the several laws concerning slaves,” passed the twenty fifth of January eighteen hundred and six.
III. Be it further enacted, That if any descendant, however remote, of any such female slave as may have obtained leave of residence as aforesaid, shall at any time be convicted in manner aforesaid of any offence against the laws of this Commonwealth, it shall be lawful for the Court of that county or corporation within which the conviction may be had, or for the court of the county or corporation in which such descendant may reside, in like manner, to revoke the leave of residence of such descendant, and to order him or her to depart this Commonwealth. And if he or she shall remain within this Commonwealth more than twelve months after such order made, he or she shall forfeit his or her right to freedom, and may be, in like manner, apprehended and sold.
IV. All Acts and parts of Acts coming within the purview of this Act shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.
V. This Act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
Armistead, Alice : Petition to Remain in the Commonwealth, Richmond City
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Dr Sir, Richmond July 9 1816 Louis F. Carter, has been permitted by gl [general] Court to remain in the State and [illegible] indulgence [attended to his wife]. A notice to this effect has been put up [illegible] Court, as he will establish. He spoke to me to aid him. this I would cheerfully do, could I go to Court. He is a most industrious fellow? [illegible] ought to be indulged by th Co'tin this [most?] [reasonable?] application for his [wife?. Will you lay the before the Co and countenance his claim concur with me Resp.y. yr Obt Servt Andrew [illegible]
