<petition><petition_analysis_number>20378901</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20378901</petition_url><state>Delaware</state><county>New Castle</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>23</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1789</file_year><filing_court>County</filing_court><end_day>28</end_day><end_month>12</end_month><end_year>1789</end_year><ending_court>County</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware</repository><abstract>James Black seeks permission to sell his slave Ben out of the state.  Ben is "very ungovernable," Black explains; he was found stealing flour "out of the mill of your Petitioner" on several occasions, and he threatened to kill the hired miller "for making the Discovery on him."</abstract><subjects><subject>Homicide</subject><subject>Theft by enslaved</subject><subject>Management (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>