Simeon Marsh "makes known to this worshipfull court his full consent to the emancipation" of his fifty-year-old slave named Ralph. Marsh asserts that "said slave is desirous of his freedom" and that he "has been living in this state for the last thirty years." Citing that Ralph is "industrious, honest peaceable, and of good habits and character," the petitioner requests the court to emancipate his slave and to "permit said slave to continue to reside in the county of Shelby and state aforesaid."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
