Joseph Newby was born in Perquimans County, North Carolina in about 1741. 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. Newby died in Perquimans on September 27, 1814.
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