Petition #11485503

Abstract

Twenty-year-old Benjamin Murrell and nineteen-year-old Martha Ann Murrell, heirs of the late Isaac Murrell, join forty-eight other petitioners in requesting "the sale of one Negro girl named Ann a diseased and afflicted creature." The Murrells state "that we are going to remove to a distant state" and "that we now have an opportunity of selling said Ann to a good advantage." They "therefore pray you to grant us the right by special act of Legislative enactment to sell said negro so that we may avail ourselves of the profits thereof before we remove."

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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee

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