<petition><petition_analysis_number>20881764</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20881764</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Orleans</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>20</file_day><file_month>8</file_month><file_year>1817</file_year><filing_court>Parish</filing_court><end_day>30</end_day><end_month>8</end_month><end_year>1817</end_year><ending_court>Parish</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>3</fpoc_count><total_people_count>4</total_people_count><repository>New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana</repository><abstract>François Péron, a free man of color, acting as the representative for his aunt, Françoise Lilavoix, asks the court to order the legal notices for the emancipation of Lilavoix's thirty-year-old male slave named Joseph Jonguy, a Creole from Saint Domingue.  Péron vouches that Joseph's conduct has always been above reproach and that he has never tried to run away [Original in French].</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Enslaver (FPOC)</subject><subject>Caribbean Islands, migration from/to</subject><subject>Property owners (women)</subject></subjects></petition>