Petition #11000013

• Claiborne County, Mississippi.
• Court: unknown
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi

Abstract

The petitioners ask for the emancipation of Samuel Martin's family. Three years before Martin, a free man of color, purchased his wife and three children. A related petition reveals that Samuel Martin had been freed a number of years earlier by his owner, J. W. Thomson.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Copy of Act for the Emancipation of Samuel Martin, a Person of Colour, n.d.; see PAR #11000011
• Pages of related documents: 2

15 people are documented within petition 11000013

• 1 Free person of color
• 4 Enslaved
• 10 Petitioners

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Citation information

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

• Legislative Papers, Petitions and Memorials 1817-1839, undated
• Record group: 47

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Frees own family (FPOC)
• Family separated (Black)
• Family kept together (Black)