Jacob Moon declares that "he is now the owner and possessor of a female slave named Ruthie Anna Maria." He asserts that she "has been living in this state, for and during the last eighteen or nineteen years." Moon recounts that "she desirous of her freedom ... was purchased by one Marcus B. Winchester ... under an agreement that he would emancipate her, so soon as, by her industry, she should have re-paid him for the money expended in her purchase." The petitioner explains that Winchester conveyed the slave to him "subject to this condition" and that "that condition has now been complied with, on her part." Thinking "that she is a fit subject for emancipation; will demean herself, properly; will support herself, and not become a charge upon the county," Moon asks "that an order be made emancipating said slave."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
