Henry Hill asks that the court "emancipate & set free from slavery" a five-year-old mulatto slave named Pleasent Homer Lesley, who "has performed many meritorious services" and "is possessed of real talent." Hill "is much opposed to slavery," and he desires that Lesley "be emancipated from the shackles of slavery in his early youth that his genius & future usefulness may not be cramped by any feelings of abasement which his situation would necessarily produce should he remain a slave." The petitioner "proposes to remove said boy to the state of Ohio for the purpose of education should his petition be granted."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Williamson County Preservation of Records and Archives, Franklin, Tennessee
