<petition><petition_analysis_number>10185701</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/10185701</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Coffee</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>7</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1857</file_year><filing_court>Legislative</filing_court><result>denied</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>12</total_people_count><repository>Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama</repository><abstract>Seventy-seven white citizens of Coffee County seeks residency status for Narcissa Daniel, a "free colored girl about seventeen years of age," who had come to Alabama from Georgia with Allen Daniel, "a highly Respectable" citizen.  Narcissa, the petitioners claim, was the "offspring of a white woman of high family."  Mrs. Daniel was her best friend and Narcissa would prefer a "state of bondage to that of separation."</abstract><subjects><subject>State residency issues (FPOC)</subject><subject>Westward migration</subject><subject>Interracial relationships</subject><subject>Illegitimacy </subject></subjects></petition>