Clem McClary Sr., a free man of color, joins his 46-year-old wife Rachel and their six children, 13-year-old Peter, 11-year-old Mary Ann, 9-year-old Susan, 7-year-old Eleanor, 5-year-old Clem Jr., and 3-year-old Elizabeth, in a petition for their emancipation "by proper & legal bonds being executed without incurring the penalties of the act of 1831 Ch. 102 and that they be allowed to remain within this state." The petitioner, "with a view in good faith to emancipate his said wife Rachel & his two only children then born of her," contracted to purchase them from Martin Clark in early December 1831 "before the passage of" said law. He further states that since 16 December 1831 "the said Rachel has ever since lived with him as his wife and as a free woman and has since that time borne to him your petitioners Susan Eleanor Clem & Elizabeth and that no other person has since that time exercised any ownership over said Rachel or her children but that they have lived with said Clem McClaury sen. as his wife & children as orderly industrious free persons of color." The petitioners pray that their emancipation be forthcoming and "that they be allowed to remain within this state."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Williamson County Preservation of Records and Archives, Franklin, Tennessee
