I was bron in Wilmington, N.C.
I belonged to John Stanley. I was
sold and two children to a Negro
trader by the name of Davis. He
brought me and children to Peters-
burg [Petersburg], Va. I left my husband in
Wilmington; some called him Peter
Picket and some Peter Stanley; he
belonged to the Pickets, who lived
in Dupelin county. My father…
Any one knowing the whereabouts of my
father, Thomas Lucas, of Wilmington, N. C.,
lived in New York City in the neighborhood of
McDugal and Sullivan streets about 1885. An
information will be gladly received by David
L. Brown, 1 Tottenham street, Tottenham
Court Road, London, W., England.