{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11279701","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11279701","state":"North Carolina","county":"Anson","location_type":"County","file_day":24,"file_month":11,"file_year":1797,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":7,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":9,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Abraham Jones, a free \"mixt Blooded man,\" avows that \"about forty years past he purchased a Certain Woman of Coller by the name of Lydia of one John Westerfield & paid honestly for her & hath Since had Six Children by said Woman.\"  Jones expresses \"very great uneasyness\" concerning the possibility that \"when your Petitioner dyed his Wife & Children woud be Slave.\"  He therefore prays that \"your Honourable Body Will take my Case into your Consideration & give your Petitioner Such Relief as in your Wisdom shall seam meet.\"  Twenty-nine subscribers attest that Jones \"hath always behaved himself as a man of Choler ought to do & further supports the carrecter of an honest Industrous man & think his case to be [heard] and ought to be Redrest by passing a law of Liberation.\"  ","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"}]}]}