Thomas Blackney requests to emancipate Harriette and her three children -- twelve-year-old Frederick, seven-year-old John, and five-year-old Tobias. Blackney relates that "it was the earnest request of your Petitioners father in his lifetime that your petitioner should not treat the said Harriett as a Slave but raise her as one of the family and when she arive at full age to give her, her freedom which is now the wish of your Petitioner more especially as it was the last request of your Petitioners Deceas'd father."
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