Jean Laurel, testamentary executor of the late Pierre Cullion, asks the court to authorize him to fulfill the requisite formalities for the emancipation of two slaves in the estate: nineteen-year old Marie Françoise, a girl, and seventeen-year-old Jean Pierre, a boy. Laurel presents that, in his 1822 last will and testament, the late Cullion recognized the two youngsters as his "natural," i.e., illegitimate, children by his former slave, Marie Catherine, now a free woman of color. The late Cullion expressed the wish that both his children be freed as early as the law, present or future, would allow. Laurel is now taking advantage of a newly enacted law, which relaxes the age requirements, to pull up the emancipation of the two youngsters. The will, a related document, reveals that Cullion not only granted freedom to his two children, he also made various legacies to them and their mother. In addition, he left the bulk of his estate to his other "natural" daughter named Elizabeth, born of a now deceased slave named Andrée Gosert.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
