Petition #20883328
- Orleans Parish, Louisiana. cicra February 1833. - February 13, 1833.
- Court: Police Jury
- Salutation: To the President & members of the Police Jury in and for the Parish of Orleans
Abstract
Antoine Benjamin, a free man of color, presents to the police jury that, in 1832, he purchased from the widow Daublin his forty-six-year-old sister, named Louise, "under the condition that he should manumit" her. He explains that he now wishes to manumit Louise as soon as possible "in obedience" to the condition of sale. He declares that Louise has always been "a good subject & of approved good morals," as well as a "faithful, laborious & worthy" servant. He "earnestly supplicates" the police jury to grant him the necessary "faculty" to proceed to the other formalities required by law.
Result: Granted.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: PAR #20881453 in the Benjamin Series; Certificate [Text in French], 27 October 1832; Extracts from Police Jury Deliberations, 2 February 1833, 9 February 1833, certified 11 February 1833; Petition to Parish Court, ca. 13 February 1833; Order, 13 February 1833; Sheriff's Return, 13 February 1833
- Pages of related documents: 4
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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 177D
- Microfilm: Reel #98-5
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