11383013https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11383013South CarolinaYorkDistrict/Parish001830Petition000referred to Judiciary Committee113South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaJeremiah Dickey, a free man of color who purchased his freedom, states that during his time as a slave, he had married a mulatto woman, the slave of Robert Manning. Before their marriage, his wife "was delivered of a female child--whose father was a white man." Dickey states that he purchased Jincey from her owner and now seeks to emancipate her. He therefore prays that he be permitted to free his sixteen-year-old step-daughter "under the name Jensey Dickey."Purchased own family (FPOC)owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slavePurchase of freedomEnslaver (FPOC)Interracial relationshipsFrees own family (FPOC)