{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11085906","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11085906","state":"Mississippi","county":"Hinds","location_type":"County","file_year":1859,"filing_court":"Archives","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":11,"repository":"Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi","abstract":"Forty-four citizens of Hinds County write in behalf of A. L. Chevis, who \"has conducted himself with honesty, sobriety, & humbleness; never having, to our Knowledge, indulged in any Conduct Calculated to render his residence here objectionable.\"  He had worked as a barber and bricklayer.  His wife is a slave, and they have eight slave children.  The petitioners request that he be exempted from the pending bill designed to drive free people of color from the state.","subjects":[{"subject":"Occupation (FPOC)"},{"subject":"State residency issues (FPOC)"}]}]}