Petition #11481501

• Davidson County, Tennessee. filing started October 21, 1815.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the honourable General Assembly now Setting in Nashville

Abstract

Twenty-five petitioners request that Sherwood Brian, a free man of color, be granted the privileges of citizenship "in every respect as if he Were a White man."

Result: Senate: read and laid on table.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Pages of related documents: 0

11 people are documented within petition 11481501

• 1 Free person of color
• 10 Petitioners

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Citation information

Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

• Legislative Petitions
• Microfilm: Reel #5,

Subjects

• Enfranchisement/Disenfranchisement