21279807https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21279807North CarolinaCravenCounty61798County61798Countygranted107North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaAnn G. Daly, administratrix of the late John Daly, Esq. and guardian to his minor children, ask permission to emancipate a twenty-year-old mulatto slave name Mary. According to Ann Daly, and her co-petitioners, Robert Donnell, his wife Eliza Donnell, and John Sears, Mary "has always been reputed to be" John Daly's daughter. She "is a girl of excellent character," the petitioners write, and is "industrious Sober & honest & has always behaved dutifully and affectionately towards the whole family."owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slaveInterracial socializing Illegitimacy