Petition #20882796

• Orleans Parish, Louisiana. cicra February 1827. - February 22, 1827.
• Court: Parish
• Salutation: To the Honorable James Pitot, Judge of the Parish & City of New-Orleans

Abstract

Maria Moore Delorme, a free woman of color, asks the court to "lay" her "humble petition" before the Police Jury for their consent to the emancipation of her two slaves, twenty-eight-year-old daughter Jeanne and two-year-old grandson François. She presents that she has purchased Jeanne and François from Louis Chauvin Deléry, with the express intent to emancipate them. A related act of sale in the French language reveals that Louis Deléry was acting as the agent of his wife, Marie Corbin Deléry.

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Order, 22 February 1827; Sheriff's Return, 27 February 1827; Extract from Police Jury Deliberations, 17 February 1827, certified 19 February 1827; Act of Sale [Text in French], 9 February 1826, certified 10 April 1826
• Pages of related documents: 4

5 people are documented within petition 20882796

• 2 Enslaved
• 2 Free persons of color
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Records of the Parish Court, Emancipation Petitions 1813-1843
• Page: frame 58H
• Microfilm: Reel #98-3

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Purchase/Sale (enslaved family)
• Warranty (enslaved)
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)
• Purchased for emancipation
• Frees own family (FPOC)
• Family kept together (Black)