Mordecai Elliot was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina in about 1751. 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. Elliot left the Society of Friends in 1808 after he continued the practice of slavery against the Quakers' teachings. Elliot died in Perquimans in about 1816.
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