Charlotte Leath, former slave of Sarah Leath, petitions the county court for permission to remain within the county. She declares that "she has lived all her life time in the family of her late mistress, who owns several of her children, & that your petitioner is very much attached to her children to the white family with which she has been all her life connected, & that in case of sickness or distress or misfortune in any way she should look to her White folks to take care of her, which she has no doubt they would do." Leath adds to her prayer that "she knows of no other home, & would be much distressed to be compelled to leave her native state & thrown among strangers."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
