Names listed in the documents: Free Negroes of Manchester, Thomas Richardson, Peter French, William Goding
Petitioners have resided here for two years, have received no lands, and are ordered off the commons belonging to the town before next October. Request grants of land, utensils for husbandry, clothes, ammunition and boards, as they have received none of these things.
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