Milly Swan, a free woman of color, asks the court to emancipate her ten-year-old stepdaughter, Harriot, who is a slave. Swan declares that Harriot is "of good & unimpeachable character and industrious habits" and is "a resident of said County." Based on "the love and affection entertained by your petitioner for the said Slave Harriot," the petitioner requests "your Honl Court ... to manumit & set [her] free from all the duties of servitude which said slave owes your petitioner" and that Harriot "be allowed to remain in the state of Tennessee." Included with this petition is a bond whereby George Swan, Milly's brother, is bound as an apprentice to Milly until age twenty-one "to be taught and instructed ... to do and perform manual labor about a farm." Also attached is a register of free people of color that lists the names and occupations of seventy-one persons.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
