<petition><petition_analysis_number>10382920</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10382920</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county></county><file_day>6</file_day><file_month>2</file_month><file_year>1829</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>House: read, referred</result><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>"Having two Servants in Delaware," Thomas Handy, a Maryland resident, is "anxious to remove them from Delaware into the State of maryland."  He therefore prays that a law be passed "authorising your Petitioner to remove from the State of Delaware into the State of Maryland negroes Clem and George to have &amp; hold them as his proper slaves."</abstract><subjects><subject>Absentee owners</subject></subjects></petition>