Petition #11083006

• Wilkinson County, Mississippi. filing started circa 1830.
• Court: Archives
• Salutation: To the Honourable the Senate and house of Representatives of the State of Mississippi in general assembly convened

Abstract

As executor of Patrick Foley's estate, Francis Evans asks for the emancipation of "a certain negro Slave named Burwell." In his will Foley had stipulated that, five years after his death, the slave should be freed. Evans is complying with this stipulation.

Result: Bill drawn.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Copy of Will of Patrick Foley, 15 June 1823; Bill To Emancipate Burwell, n.d.
• Pages of related documents: 6

6 people are documented within petition 11083006

• 3 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 2 Others

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Citation information

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

• Legislative Papers, Petitions and Memorials 1830
• Record group: 47

Subjects

• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Education and literacy (FPOC)
• Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)
• Churches
• Term slavery
• Manumission