Petition #11000004

Abstract

"Jerry a Man of Colour" was born a slave and asks for his freedom as stipulated in the will of Colonel Benajah Osmun. Jerry quotes the following clause from the will: "Item for the faithful services of my boy Jerry, I hereby manumit and set him the said Jerry free from slavery, from and after my decease."

Result: Reported favorably.

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Repository: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi

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