Jacob Jamieson, a free person of color, seeks to emancipate his fifty-year-old wife Lucy and his ten-year-old son James. He states "that he is now old, as well as his wife, and he is very anxious, to have them emancipated." He explains "that he has no relations known of to him, who are not slaves" and "upon his death ... he has no kin who could take them." Jamieson avows "that his said wife & child have industrious habits & have uniformly conducted & demeaned themselves as peaceable persons & have always manifested a proper respect & submission, to the white population of this community." Attesting to his wife's and son's "good moral character," the petitioner prays "that they be so emancipated by your Worships."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Williamson County Preservation of Records and Archives, Franklin, Tennessee
