Petition #11382109

• Laurens District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started circa 1821.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina

Abstract

Allen Kelley, a free person of color and a blacksmith by trade, states that "he purchased in the year 1821 his son George a Slave for whom he paid the Sum of Six hundred and four dollars." Kelley prays that he be granted "permission to indulge in so humane and desireable an object in manumitting & setting free his said son George Kelley."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Certificate, John Garlington, et al., n.d.
• Pages of related documents: 1

2 people are documented within petition 11382109

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Free person of color
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 188-90
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames 188-90

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Occupation (FPOC)
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)