{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280102","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280102","state":"North Carolina","county":"Randolph","location_type":"County","file_day":8,"file_month":12,"file_year":1801,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"Senate, House: read, referred","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":14,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"Eighteen residents of Randolph County report that the late John Bagnel \"left two Mulato [female] Children whose mother is also dead & left no will in writing altho possessed of some personal property.\"  The petitioners aver that they are \"fully satisfied that he own'd sd. children to be his & wish'd them to injoy the little property he was possessed of.\"  They therefore pray that a law be passed \"as may Entitle them to freedom & to inherite what little property may be found.\"  They further \"desire their Names to be Established Sarah Bagnell & Hannah Bagnell.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Bequest (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Interracial relationships"}]}]}