<petition><petition_analysis_number>20882743</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20882743</petition_url><state>Louisiana</state><county>Orleans</county><location_type>Parish</location_type><file_date_circa>y</file_date_circa><file_day>14</file_day><file_month>7</file_month><file_year>1827</file_year><filing_court>Parish</filing_court><end_day>16</end_day><end_month>7</end_month><end_year>1827</end_year><ending_court>Parish</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana</repository><abstract>Charlotte Blaise, a free woman of color and the widow of Jacques Jazon [Jason], presents to the court that she has purchased her godchild, a six-year-old orphan girl named Charlotte, with the view to "withdraw" her from the bonds of slavery, and to have a support in her old age.  She asks the court to submit her petition to the police jury "according to law."</abstract><subjects><subject>owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave</subject><subject>Seniors (FPOC)</subject><subject>Orphans</subject><subject>Purchased for emancipation </subject></subjects></petition>