10382710https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382710DelawareKentCounty2911827LegislativeHouse: read, referred001Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware"Having married in the State of Maryland," John Robertson of Kent County, Delaware, states that he "received from his father-in-law" an eight-year-old female slave on account of his marriage. Robertson "therefore prays your honourable body for a law authorizing him to bring the said negro girl into this State and hold her as a slave."Absentee owners