Petition #11385007

• Spartanburg District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started circa 1850.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives

Abstract

Fifty-four-year-old free mulatto William Jackson, who had lived in the area his entire life, asks to free his wife Lucinda, "a slave though three degrees removed from the African race," and his six children: Susan, Martha, Mary, Berryman, Margaret, and Hosea.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Sponsor: Elias Chumpton Leitner, House, Spartanburgh District (1850-1853)
• Pages of related documents: 0

8 people are documented within petition 11385007

• 1 Free person of color
• 7 Enslaved
• 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 184-85
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames 184-85

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Interracial relationships
• Frees own family (FPOC)