Petition #11082402

• filing started December 24, 1824.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Hon.ble the Senate and house of Representatives of State of Mississippi in General Assembly convened

Abstract

As executrix of her late husband's will, Elizabeth Bullin seeks to emancipate the slave Thomas. She says that Thomas was a "faithful servant" and that her husband, Dr. Benjamin M. Bullin, wished him to be free.

Result: Referred to committee.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Pages of related documents: 0

3 people are documented within petition 11082402

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

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

• Legislative Papers, Petitions and Memorials, 1824
• Record group: 47

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave