{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10381823","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10381823","state":"Delaware","county":"Sussex","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":1,"file_year":1818,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"read","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Noting the \"many acts of felony of pilfering & stealing Commited by the people of Colour both Bound & free,\" forty-one residents of Dagsborough and Baltimore Hundred's, Sussex County, request the establishment of a patrol.  Lamenting that \"the Inhabitants are much Distressed in their property Such as Poltry of Every Kind Sheep, Smoke houses & Corn Stacks,\" the petitioners pray \"your Honourable Body to take the premises into your Serious Considerations and Enact a Paterole Law to the extent that such vile practices may be done away if Possible.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"}]}]}