Henry Frederick Anson presents to the court and the police jury that, in 1832, John Thompson, on whose behalf he is acting as attorney in fact, purchased a forty-seven-year-old female slave named Josephine from a now deceased free woman of color named Elizabeth Joly. He further presents that Thompson purchased Josephine under the "express condition and obligation" that he would bequeath freedom to her; a condition that he is now ready to fulfill inasmuch as Josephine has rendered him many "important services." Henry Frederick Anson declares that Josephine has "always been and now is regular in her conduct," sober, industrious, "submissive and obedient to white persons," healthy and "competent" to provide for her own subsistence; and she is "free from any of the crimes and faults contemplated by law" in cases of emancipation. He asks the court and the police jury to allow him to grant freedom to Josephine without compelling her to leave the state and to authorize the sheriff to make the publications "required by law" in cases of emancipation [Docket in French].
Result: Granted.
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Repository: New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
