20784019https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20784019KentuckyJeffersonCounty7121840Chancery1871843Chancerygranted0811Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KentuckyElizabeth Drummond, a free woman of color, states that Jeremiah Drummond, her late husband, desired that she “be free from the claims ... of all the world” and thereby emancipated her in his will. She further represents that said will stipulated that she be given several hundred dollars during her widowhood. Elizabeth claims that James Overstreet, the executor of her husband's will, has taken money from her and refuses to pay her the said legacy. She asks that the terms of the will be enforced.Purchased own family (FPOC)FPOC sues FPOCowner(s)/citizens manumit/free slavePurchase of freedomBequest (enslaved)Occupation (FPOC)Enslaver (FPOC)Westward migrationFPOC sues whiteTestimony (FPOC)Purchased for emancipation Frees own family (FPOC)