{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"10382611","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/10382611","state":"Delaware","county":"New Castle","location_type":"County","file_day":17,"file_month":1,"file_year":1826,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"House: read, referred","enslaved_count":5,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware","abstract":"Peregrine Hendrickson states that he is \"possessed\" of a fifty-three-year-old slave named Nelly and four \"manumitted Negroes\" who are \"to be free at the age of 30 years agreeable to a deed of manumission recorded in ... Kent County Maryland.\"  He therefore prays that a law be passed \"to authorize him to bring said slave & manumitted Negroes into the state of Delaware.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Term slavery"}]}]}