James Scott, a free man of color, requests permission to remain in Shelby County, Tennessee. He states that "he was born free in the County of Burke in the state of North Carolina -- that he removed to this County about fifteen years since" and that his freedom papers were recorded in Shelby County on 10 November 1834. Scott fears "that should he remove from this state, he would have to be located among strangers, and strange laws." Noting that "his associates are here," Scott asks that "your worships may extend to him the privileges of the act of Assembly passed at Nashville 4th February 1842."
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
