Mary Humphreys requests that "a Family of yellow Slaves" be emancipated in accordance with the wishes of her late husband's last will and testament. She recounts that her husband Jesse "had raised up from their Infancy" the three children of Lucy and that the family had attended him for over ten years "most affectionately" in while in his "afflicted situation” and that they have run the farm and dairy with "Judgement and Economy" when, due to old age and infirmities, she has not been "able to help herself." The petitioner therefore prays "your Honorable body in your wisdom to pass a Law allowing said slaves ... at the death of your memorialist to be Emancipated." Humphreys also requests that Lucy and her family be allowed to remain in the state.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
