Mathias Freeman, a free man of color, petitions to recover his freedom. He asserts that he was born to free parents in the city of Hudson, New York. Freeman is now being "detained" in the "Police Prison" in New Orleans on the "complaint of a Captain of one of the Steam Boats" docked in the city. During his employment as a "Seaman," Freeman "casually lost his certificate of Freedom." However, He further notes that "full evidence" of his status "can be obtained in Hudson." Freeman requests the court's assistance in "obtaining his freedom" and asks that Dominique Belaumi, the "Keeper" of the prison, "be decreed to restore” him “to his Freedoms and Liberty."
Result: Discontinued.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
