As free people of color, the Cousins family -- Sally, Arnold, Nancy, Emily, Thomas, Bessey, James, Missouri, and Martha -- petitions the court to appoint Seth M. Mills as their new guardian. [The following court notation appears directly below the order granting the Cousinses' petition: "Ordered that Nancy Bowman & her three children & Polly Rogers, Philip Bowman, & Catherine Smothers & her four children be registered as free persons of color -- Evidence of their freedom having heretofore been filed in office."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Jones County Courthouse, Gray, Georgia
