<petition><petition_analysis_number>11082304</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11082304</petition_url><state>Mississippi</state><county>Adams</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>30</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1824</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi</repository><abstract>As executor of Rebecca Franklin's estate, White Turpin asks to emancipate Sylvia, "an old &amp; Very harmless woman."  The late Franklin stipulated in her will that Sylvia should be freed.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Seniors (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>