11000013https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11000013MississippiClaiborneCountyunknowngranted4115Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MississippiThe petitioners ask for the emancipation of Samuel Martin's family. Three years before Martin, a free man of color, purchased his wife and three children. A related petition reveals that Samuel Martin had been freed a number of years earlier by his owner, J. W. Thomson.Purchased own family (FPOC)owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slaveEnslaver (FPOC)Frees own family (FPOC)Family separated (Black)Family kept together (Black)