Rev. Samuel W. Doak states that "he is the owner of the negro woman slave Lucy ... [and] that for past service and other considerations, he is desirous of processing her emancipation, with liberty to remain in the State." Doak recounts that Lucy "was a family servant of your petitioners from her childhood till a few years ago, being now about 25 years of age." He attests to "her habits of industry, good disposition and her sense of the subordinate station she occupies." The petitioner therefore prays that a law be passed "authorizing the emancipation of the said woman Lucy, in accordance with the prayer of the foregoing petition of Mr. & Mrs. Henshaw, in behalf of her husband Gilbert."
Result: Referred to committee.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
