{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11279513","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11279513","state":"North Carolina","county":"New Hanover","location_type":"County","file_day":11,"file_month":11,"file_year":1795,"filing_court":"Legislative","end_day":11,"end_month":11,"end_year":1795,"ending_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Henry Taylor requests compensation for being shot in the shoulder while hunting runaway slaves.  Taylor recounts that he endeavored \"to put a stop\" to the depredations committed by \"a number of outlying runaway [that] had collected themselves together\" to rob and to kill and destroy the stock of \"the Inhabitants of the counties of Brunswick and New Hanover.\"  While on such duty, he explains, a fellow patroller, being suddenly awakened by him, \"shot your memorialist through the Shoulder.\"  Unable to pay the surgeon's fee of £60, Taylor asks \"your Honorable body to take his case into consideration and grant him such releif as you shall think meet and proper.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"},{"subject":"Insurrections\/Revolts (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Destruction of property"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"}]}]}