<petition><petition_analysis_number>20882170</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20882170</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Orleans</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_day>25</file_day><file_month>6</file_month><file_year>1821</file_year><filing_court>Parish</filing_court><end_day>26</end_day><end_month>6</end_month><end_year>1821</end_year><ending_court>Parish</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>3</total_people_count><repository>New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana</repository><abstract>Jean Quessart is attorney-in-fact of a resident of France named A. Sallet.  He presents to the court that Sallet wishes to emancipate his thirty-two-year-old male slave named Nelson, who has "always kept a good conduct and never offered to run away."  Quessart therefore asks the court to order that "all the proper notices required by law" be posted up by the sheriff.</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Absentee owners</subject></subjects></petition>