{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10381824","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10381824","state":"Delaware","county":"Sussex","location_type":"County","file_day":12,"file_month":1,"file_year":1818,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred to committee","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":10,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Noting the \"many acts of fellony of pilfering & Stealing committed by the people of Colour both bound & free,\" one hundred and five 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 posible.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"}]}]}