{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382610","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382610","state":"Delaware","county":"Kent","location_type":"County","file_day":6,"file_month":2,"file_year":1826,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Curtis Beswick represents that \"he is the owner of a female slave named Gastura\" and that he acquired said slave \"by virtue of his intermarriage with Sarah S Purnell,\" a resident of Maryland before her marriage.  He further states that his wife \"is much attached [to Gastura] and is desirous of removing her from the said state of Maryland into the State of Delaware.\"  Beswick therefore prays that a law be passed \"authorizing him to remove said slave from the state of Maryland into this State and here to hold her as a slave.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"White attachment (enslaved)"}]}]}