<petition><petition_analysis_number>10382006</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382006</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county></county><file_day>10</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1820</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>House: read, referred; Senate: read</result><enslaved_count>3</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>5</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Noah Ross of Caroline County, Maryland, inherited four slaves "in right of his wife," the daughter of Hester Cannon, who died in Sussex County, Delaware.  The petitioner therefore asks that an act be passed "authorizing him, the said Noah Ross, to remove the said Slaves, from Sussex County State of Delaware, to his place of residence, in Caroline County State of Maryland."</abstract><subjects><subject>Slave trade (domestic)</subject></subjects></petition>