Gail,
I recall looking for the surname before, three was only one record, in Pasquotank Co, as follows:

PENELOPE SWANN
to Peto. Emancipation The Court X-987
March Term 1912
J. N. atto.

State of North Carolina
Pasquo.County Court

To the Worshipful the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid
The Petition of PENELOPE SWANN respectfully shewet unto Your Worships that she is the owner of a certain negro Slave, named HANNIBAL, who she is desirous shoul be liberated and set free, May it please Your Worships to grant and direct the Clerk to make the necessary orders, when the requisites of the Acts of Assembly for such cases made and provided shall be compied with, And your Petitioner as in duty bound will every pray &c.
JAS. NORFLEET, Atto. Pet.

Granted

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Deloris