11082801https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11082801MississippiClaiborneCounty1811828Petition416Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MississippiWilling to put up a good-behavior bond, Thomas Collen asks the legislature to pass acts of emancipation for Mary Willis and her three children--Richard age about six, Daphne, age about three, and William, age about six months. Mary, the daughter of a free woman of color named Daphne, had "long been recognized as a free woman and exercised the privileges of one."owner(s)/citizens manumit/free slaveVirtually free (enslaved)Family kept together (Black)