Elizabeth, a mulatto woman, claims that she was baptized in New Orleans, in the year 1815, “by and with the consent of” her then owner, Victor Babin of Mississippi. After Babin’s death in 1830, his heirs sold Elizabeth to one André Beauvais, who bound himself to petition the New Orleans legal authorities for her emancipation before the age “prescribed by law.” Beauvais never applied for her emancipation in New Orleans; but, in 1837, he took her to Alabama, where he freed her and her young daughter, Marie Hyppolite, by "private act” in the presence of a witness. For this, she paid Beauvais $250. However, Beauvais is now dead and his executor, one Angelo Philippi, is threatening to have Elizabeth and Marie Hyppolite arrested as slaves belonging to the estate. Elizabeth therefore prays the court to decree her and Marie Hyppolite free. She also prays that, if her Alabama freedom cannot be legally recognized, Philippi be ordered to fulfill the requisites of the law for emancipation in Louisiana.
Result: Discontinued.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
