{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20382601","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20382601","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":5,"file_month":4,"file_year":1826,"filing_court":"County","end_day":14,"end_month":4,"end_year":1826,"ending_court":"County","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Peregrine Hendrickson asks to export and sell Julia Ann, a ten-year-old slave, who set fire to his house and attempted to poison a neighbor's infant.  Hendrickson states that she exhibited \"a degree of cunning and management, which evince a character & disposition of the most dangerous kind.\"  The petitioner notes that the attorney general has already decided \"that from the youth of the said Julia Ann, a prosecution for a capital offence had better not be instituted, as a conviction could scarcely be expected of one of so tender an age.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Poisoning "},{"subject":"Destruction of property"},{"subject":"Whipping"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}