François Layet is petitioning as the special agent of his mother, Marie Madeleine Géré, widow of the late François Layet. He presents to the court that his mother is the owner of a fifty-year-old female slave named Marie Claire, whose freedom she "feels bound by every principle of morality and justice" to secure as a reward for Marie Claire's exceptional, long and loyal services. François Layet explains that Marie Claire was born in the "Island of St Domingo." After the troubles "had commenced" on the island and the "whites were forced to fly for their lives," Marie Claire voluntarily followed Marie Madeleine's family, "as a slave," to the state of Louisiana and continued to serve them "honestly and faithfully." François Layet vouches that Marie Claire has never been guilty of any crime and that she is "respectful and submissive towards her owners & the whites her superiors." He therefore asks the court to "authorize and direct" the sheriff to post up the "notices required by law."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
