Title: Hannah W. Swan Grant of Pardon and Amnesty

Date/Date Range :   1865 October 27

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

In this document, President Andrew Johnson pardons Hannah W. Swan of Knox County for her rebellion against the United States of America on the conditions that she take the oath given in the May 29, 1865 Proclamation of the President, never owns slaves nor uses slave labor, pays all costs from any previous legal proceedings, doesn't attempt to recover any property seized by the government during the Civil War, and notifies the Secretary of State in writing that she has received and accepted the pardon.

Call number: MS-0056

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

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Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Hannah W. Swan Grant of Pardon and Amnesty, MS-0056. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Hannah Wells Crozier was born on April 22, 1817 in Tennessee. She married William Swan (1789-1859) on November 11, 1847 in Knox County, Tennessee. Although William Swan is listed as a lawyer on the 1850 U.S. Federal Census, he and his wife owned between thirteen and twenty-eight slaves prior to the Civil War. William Swan died before the war began, but Hannah Swan sided with the Confederacy. She received a presidential pardon after the war, and continued to live in Knoxville until her death on August 12, 1878. Both she and her husband are buried in Knoxville's Old Gray Cemetery.

In this document, President Andrew Johnson pardons Hannah W. Swan of Knox County for her rebellion against the United States of America on the conditions that she take the oath given in the May 29, 1865 Proclamation of the President, never owns slaves nor uses slave labor, pays all costs from any previous legal proceedings, doesn't attempt to recover any property seized by the government during the Civil War, and notifies the Secretary of State in writing that she has received and accepted the pardon.

• Swan, Hannah Wells Crozier, 1817-1878.
• Slavery -- Tennessee.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Tennessee, East.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.