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Re: Proving accounts
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Constantine Gutzman <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:16:51 -0500
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Perhaps it refers to a disability a black man faced in attempts to enforce
debts against white debtors; what were the limitations on free blacks' right
to testify in TN?
Constantine Gutzman
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From: "Paul Finkelman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:16 PM
Subject: Porving accounts


> The following are from Tennessee Legislative peititions.  Does anyone
> know what "proving accounts" are?
>
> "The Petition of the Subscribers to that Gasper Lott a free man of
> colour of great industry and Honesty, by his exertions, has accumulated
> considerable property, and by the Laws as they now are he is deprived of
>
> the privilige [sic] of proving his accounts, which tends to deprive him
> of the common benefits of a citizen, which we conceive may tend to check
>
> him and they behaving well from making the efforts they otherwise would
> do to gain an honest livelihood, we therefore pray your honorable body
> will take his case into consideration , and grant him such relief as to
> your Honorable body may seem just & your petitioners will pray &c.
> 4 August 1803.
>
>
> Greene County citizens petition to give "Joshua Hall a freeman of
> Colour" "the privilidge [sic] of proving by his own Oath, when he cant
> by any other person, his account [sic]..1st he pays tax. 2ndly he he
> does military Duty-3d he performed a Tour of duty during the late War
> with credit to himself-&lastly because we believe him to be an honest
> man."
> 1817
>
> (Legislative Petitions Collection, Tennessee State Library and Archives)
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