Petition #11082801

Abstract

Willing to put up a good-behavior bond, Thomas Collen asks the legislature to pass acts of emancipation for Mary Willis and her three children--Richard age about six, Daphne, age about three, and William, age about six months. Mary, the daughter of a free woman of color named Daphne, had "long been recognized as a free woman and exercised the privileges of one."

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

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