Petition #11584104

Abstract

Originally from Richmond County, Georgia, Zylpha Husk, a twenty-seven-year-old free woman of color, moved to Texas about five years ago. She states that she has always conducted herself in an "obedient and respectful" manner and that she has a thirteen-year-old daughter. She confides that compliance with the law requiring her to leave "before the first of January next would bear heavily upon herself and her daughter ... as she would know not where to go if driven hence." She therefore "prays your Honorable body to grant her permission to reside in the Republic as heretofore with her daughter Emily." Forty-eight citizens acknowledge that Husk "has conducted herself well and earned her living by Honest Industry in the capacity of a washerwoman."

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Repository: Texas State Library-Archives Division, Austin, Texas

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