Tensas Parish Court Records, Tensas Parish, Louisiana Act of Emancipation Freeing Thomas Jackson From Slavery Extracted from the original handwritten copy by Edith Ziegler; Submitted by Edith Ziegler ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** John & Edy Jackson To Thomas Jackson, Slave KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that I, James G. Gordon, Attorney in fact for John Jackson and Edy Jackson of the State of Mississippi from motives of filial affection, benevolence and humanity have manumitted and set free and hereby do manumit and set free from slavery a certain African named Thomas Jackson who is the son and slave of the said John and Edy Jackson. The said Thomas Jackson is now in the city of Cincinnatti and State of Ohio being sent there by the said John and Edy for the pur- pose of being Emancipated and set free, said Thomas is about fourteen years old, dark complexion, has a scar on the instep of his left foot and was purchased by the said John and Edy from Daniel Sexton and Nancy Sexton by Bill of Sale dated at the State of Arkansas, County of Desha on the 26th day of April 1839. And the said John and Edy Jackson by James G. Gordon, their attorney in fact, do hereby give, grant and re- lease unto the said Thomas Jackson, all their right title and claim to his person and services and to the property which the said Thomas may hereafter acquire. In Witness whereof we, John Jackson and Edy Jackson by James G. Gordon, their attorney in fact, have hereunto set our hands and seals at Cincinnatti this 15th day of June Anno Domini 1840. In Presence of I. S. Snyder K. Kellogg John Jackson---Seal Edy Jackson----Seal by James G Gordon their attorney in fact