"Your Petitioner Eliza Kennedy a free woman of color by her next friend John White now residing in Shelby County Tennessee would represent unto your honorable worships that she has been emancipated by her late Master and owner O G Kennedy and that she prays your honorable worships to grant her permission to remain in said County and State-- That she would if compelled to remove from said County and State be thrown among strangers alone and unprotected; that she would be deprived of all facilities of making for herself an honorable livelihood which she has now around her through the kindness of friends-- And she will ever pray &c." [Transcription of petition.]
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Memphis and Shelby County Archives, Memphis, Tennessee
