Ann, an African American woman residing in Perquimans County, North Carolina, was enslaved by Mary Nixon. If Ann is the same individual named Nan who Mary Nixon inherited upon her husband's death in 1771, then Ann was born in about 1733. Due to the Nixons' religious beliefs as Quakers, Mary freed Ann in about 1776. Later, North Carolina passed a law stating that enslaved people could not be freed without permission of the courts. In 1778 local officials arrested Ann, arguing that she had violated the law even though she had been emancipated prior to the law, and sold her labor at public auction. Any further information regarding this individual has not been located.