Revolutionary War veteran Joshua Hadley asks that seven slaves be emancipated rather than "fall into the hands of his [six] ungrateful and cruel children," all of "whom he has raised & educated and rendered independent" and of whom only one "will now speak to him." Avowing that said slaves "have been obedient and dutiful servants to him," Hadley prays that five slaves "may now be emancipated" and that two others "may be emancipated at the death of his wife Hannah Hadley."
Result: "reported reasonable".
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
