John Cockrill asks that the slaves Sam and Harry be emancipated; the slaves had belonged to Thomas Malloy of Davidson County, who died about 1800. He reports that their sister, a mulatto slave named Sophy who had been freed by Malloy in his lifetime, persuaded the executors of Malloy's estate to free Sam and Harry on condition that the slaves find a benefactor to pay the estate $900 and that they work off the debt to the benefactor. Cockrill admits that he "accordingly through charity & pity for said coloured people paid up the nine hundred dollars, and acknowledges that he has been completely reimbursed by them." He represents that Sam and Harry "have served faithfully every person they have undertaken to serve so far as he knows or has heard." The petitioner therefore "asks the Legislature to pass a law for their emancipation."
Result: Propositions and grievances: "reasonable".
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
