Note [822 — Chapter IX
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[822] Ballagh, op. cit., p. 72. A curious case shows the owner of an Indian slave in Bristol Parish, Virginia, petitioning the vestry of the parish, 1730, to grant that such Indian slave might be exempted from the parish levy as he was sick and unable to work. The petition was granted. Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720–1789, p. 49.