Nicolas Desonges, a free man of color, presents to the parish judge and the police jury that he has purchased a forty-six-year-old female slave named Mariguitte for the specific purpose of "obtaining for her the inestimable blessing of freedom." He explains that Mariguitte, whom he calls his "near relative," was born in the family of the late Françoise Hugon, where she continued residing until he recently purchased her. He declares that Mariguitte always served the Hugon family as "an honest faithful slave should do;" and that, moreover, she is "free from any of the misdemeanors and blemishes contemplated by law" in cases of emancipation. He asks the police jury to authorize him to emancipate Mariguitte without asking him "to furnish the obligation required by the last section" of the act of the 16th of March 1830 and without compelling Mariguitte to leave the state.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
