Scarce report on the petition of the son of British Loyalist, John Du Bois. John Du Bois was a port collector, magistrate, merchant and one of the wealthiest men in Wilmington, North Carolina prior to the American Revolution. The Du Bois' were loyal to the British crown and as a result were "banished from Wilmington into the Back Country" and their wealth seized by the newly formed American government. OCLC WorldCat locates only 3 copies (Duke University, Ohio State University, and University of Michigan).