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Then in 1788 the act was amended to include “all and every slave or slaves who shall be brought into this state by persons inhabiting or residing therein, or intending to inhabit or reside therein shall be immediately considered, deemed and taken to be free to all intents and purposes.”
To Kitty, the move to Pennsylvania must have been complete assurance that yes, she was free, emancipated and forever restored to perfect freedom as the deed of amancipation promised.
Mary Maddox didn’t even stop there. Not only did she settle Kitty and her children in Pennsylvania as free persons but she wrote a deed of manumission and filed it with the justice of the peace there, discharging Kitty from servitude again on January 21, 1844.
Secure that she had done everything that needed to be done, Mary returned to Rappahannock. Maybe she told a few close friends what she had done. Maybe her nephew demanded an accounting. The court records don’t say.
But sometime after the harvest in 1845, Samuel Maddox and four or five other white men stopped at Charles Myers’ tavern and stable near Pennsylvania’s Menallan township between^ a.m. and 3 a.m. and wan their horses fed. (Continued on Page 9)
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