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Biographical Description

Benjamin Smith was a resident of Perquimans County, North Carolina. A Quaker, in 1782 he signed a petition asking that Peter, a local man of mixed African American and American Indian ancestry, be allowed to remain unenslaved. Smith died sometime after 1782.

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