{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20980305","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20980305","state":"Maryland","county":"Queen Anne's","location_type":"County","file_month":5,"file_year":1803,"filing_court":"County","end_date_circa":"y","end_month":6,"end_year":1813,"ending_court":"Appellate","result":"granted; appealed; affirmed","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":4,"total_people_count":8,"repository":"Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland","abstract":"Robert Moody petitions for his freedom on the grounds that he was born free and \"is lineally descended in the female Line from an Indian Woman a Native of America.\"  Moody files transcripts from three earlier freedom suits as evidence in his own suit.  Those suits involved the alleged descendants of a free Indian woman named Moll or Mary raised in the family of Philemon Lloyd, a white planter.  Moody attests that his mother Betty was the daughter of Rachel Baker, one of the successful plaintiffs in the October 1800 freedom suit.","subjects":[{"subject":"Sues for freedom (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Testimony (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Native Americans"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}