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Petition from Harry Pope and Sarah Timsy to Recover their Children
In this undated document, two formerly enslaved parents in Cherokee County, Texas, petition Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton for help in recovering their children from “the former owner by force of arms” after they were “taken out of the petitioners hands by force of arms.” Pope and Timsy write that “our children does not want to stay with their former owner.”
Harry Pope and Sarah Timsey
Papers of Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton, Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel
Unknown, probably 1866
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