Petition #20883424

• Orleans Parish, Louisiana. cicra August 24, 1834. - August 24, 1834.
• Court: Parish
• Salutation: To the Honorable Charles Maurian Judge of the Parish Court for the city and Paris of New Orleans

Abstract

Marie Françoise Dolliole, a free woman of color, presents to the court that she is the owner of a male slave named Jean Baptiste, who is her "natural," i.e., illegitimate, son. She further presents that she purchased Jean Baptiste from Pierre Deverges for the purpose of "granting him his freedom." She vouches that her son is "a man of good moral character temperate sober and industrious free from all the crimes and blemishes contemplated by Law in cases of intended emancipation" [Incomplete Petition].

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Order, 24 August 1834; Sheriff's Return, ca. 26 August 1834; Extracts from Police Jury Deliberations, 8 June 1834, 9 August 1834, certified 11 August 1834
• Pages of related documents: 1

3 people are documented within petition 20883424

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Free person 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 48A
• Microfilm: Reel #98-2

Subjects

• Purchased own family (FPOC)
• owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slave
• Enslaver (FPOC)
• Purchased for emancipation
• Illegitimacy
• Frees own family (FPOC)