Petition #20883564

Abstract

Myrtille Courcelle presents to the police jury that he is the "true and legitimate owner" of a four-and-a-half-year-old orphan boy named Zach or Alexandre or Alexandre Smith. He further presents that he intends to give Zach "some education" and to assure "unto him the advantages of a free man of colour," and that, for that purpose, he wishes to emancipate him. He therefore asks the police jury to order Zach's emancipation. We learn from a related document in the French language that Myrtille Courcelle was a free man of color and that he purchased Zach and his mother, Eugénie or Jenny, from James Huie of Rowan County, North Carolina in 1831.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

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