<petition><petition_analysis_number>10382617</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382617</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county></county><file_day>23</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1826</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>Senate: read, referred</result><enslaved_count>3</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>4</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>Jane Taylor of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, represents that she owns three slaves who reside in Delaware.  She therefore prays that a law be passed "authorizing her to remove and carry out her aforesaid slaves from the state of Delaware into the State of Maryland."</abstract><subjects><subject>Absentee owners</subject></subjects></petition>