Petition #21585818

• Gillespie County, Texas. filing started October 4, 1858.
• Court: District

Abstract

Pursuant to "an Act to permit Free persons of African Descent, to select their own Master and become Slaves," Ann Jackson, "being a free female of Color respectfully Petition[s] the Honorable District Court, to choose W. C. Lewis of Mason County, State of Texas, to be my lawful master."

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Clerk's Notice, 22 November 1858
• Pages of related documents: 0

1 people are documented within petition 21585818

• 1 Free person of color
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York

• Gilder Lehrman Collection

Subjects

• Voluntary enslavement