11085905https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11085905MississippiKemperCounty1859Archives0111Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MississippiFifty-three citizens of Kemper County write in behalf of Gillam, a free person of color "of good character" and a carpenter by trade. They request that he be exempted from the pending bill designed to drive free people of color from the state.Occupation (FPOC)State residency issues (FPOC)