Petition #20883564
- Orleans Parish, Louisiana. April 1835. - June 19, 1835.
- Court: Police Jury
- Salutation: To the honorable the Police Jury in and for the parish of Orleans
Abstract
Myrtille Courcelle presents to the police jury that he is the "true and legitimate owner" of a four-and-a-half-year-old orphan boy named Zach or Alexandre or Alexandre Smith. He further presents that he intends to give Zach "some education" and to assure "unto him the advantages of a free man of colour," and that, for that purpose, he wishes to emancipate him. He therefore asks the police jury to order Zach's emancipation. We learn from a related document in the French language that Myrtille Courcelle was a free man of color and that he purchased Zach and his mother, Eugénie or Jenny, from James Huie of Rowan County, North Carolina in 1831.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: Extracts from Police Jury Deliberations, 25 April 1835, 6 June 1835, certified 9 June 1835; Petition to Parish Court, ca. 19 June 1835; Order, 19 June 1835; Sheriff's Return, 19 June 1835; Bill of Sale, James Huie to Myrtille Courcelle, 12 April 1831; Copy of an Extract from the Baptism Registry, Alexandre [Text in French], 10 July 1831
- Pages of related documents: 7
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Citation information
Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Records of the Parish Court, Emancipation Petitions 1813-1843
- Page: frame 51B
- Microfilm: Reel #98-2
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