{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11279805","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11279805","state":"North Carolina","county":"Craven","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":11,"file_year":1798,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"John Carruthers Stanly, \"a man of mixed blood,\" recounts that Alexander and Lydia Stewart, \"in consideration of the long, faithful & meritorious services of your petitioner,\" sought and received a licence from the Craven County Court \"to sett your petitioner free\"; the said licence enabled them to execute a deed of manumission \"whereby they [did] give, grant, & confirm unto your petitioner his freedom liberty & emancipation.\"  Fearing \"that some accident may deprive him of the evidence of his emancipation & thereby of the fruits of his honest industry,\" Stanly prays that a law be passed to \"confirm, establish and Secure to your petitioner his Freedom.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"owner(s)\/citizens manumit\/free slave"},{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"}]}]}