{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11082204","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11082204","state":"Mississippi","county":"Monroe","location_type":"County","file_day":7,"file_month":12,"file_year":1822,"filing_court":"Petition","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"David Burton, Thomas Wright, and John Trail ask the legislature not to emancipate certain slaves named in the will of Lawson Thompson, their brother-in-law.  The slaves were children, and Thompson's goal was to \"gratify his ill will\" toward the petitioners rather than to reward meritorious service by the slaves.","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"}]}]}