Sixty-four residents of Brazoria County ask that Samuel H. Harden and his wife, Tamar Morgan, be permitted to remain in the Republic. Harden, a free man of color, arrived in Texas as early as 1822; she arrived in 1832, purchasing her freedom "with the proceeds of her own labor" two years later. The petitioners consider Harden and Morgan to be of "industrious habits, and general good conduct," and they "believe it would be both arbitrary and unjust to require them to leave the country, since they came here under laws that invited their emigration, and acquired rights and property to a considerable amount before those laws were changed." They pray that an act be passed "permitting Samuel H Harden and his wife Tamar Morgan to reside in the Republic."
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Repository: Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas
