<petition><petition_analysis_number>20986035</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20986035</petition_url><state>Maryland</state><county>Anne Arundel</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>27</file_day><file_month>3</file_month><file_year>1860</file_year><filing_court>Orphans</filing_court><end_day>27</end_day><end_month>3</end_month><end_year>1860</end_year><ending_court>Orphans</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>1</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland</repository><abstract>James R. Stewart alleges that seventeen-year-old George Riley, a free person of color, is "both a vagrant and an orphan."  Stewart explains that Riley "has applied to your petitioner for a home" and he therefore requests that Riley be bound to him "upon such terms and conditions as may be just and proper."</abstract><subjects><subject>Orphans</subject><subject>Occupation (FPOC)</subject><subject>Apprenticeship/Indenture (FPOC)</subject></subjects></petition>