PAR #: 11484501
Location: Hamilton County, TN • Year: 1845

Abstract: Residents of Hamilton County seek permission for Parlour Washington and his wife, Celicia, to remain in Tennessee. Washington, emancipated in Virginia, is a tanner, and the couple boasted a "good name, fame and reputation, as moral religious and upright persons."

They got to stay (1850 census):

Name: Parlar Washington
Age: 50
Estimated Birth Year: 1799
Birth Place: North Carolina
Gender: Male
Race: M
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): District 27, Hamilton, Tennessee
Page: 459
Roll: M432_881
listed as occupation tanner

listed with wife:

Name: Cela Washington
Age: 55
Estimated Birth Year: 1794
Birth Place: Virginia
Gender: Female
Race: Black
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): District 27, Hamilton, Tennessee
Page: 459
Roll: M432_881