{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11280205","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11280205","state":"North Carolina","county":"Craven","location_type":"County","file_year":1802,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"granted","enslaved_count":3,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina","abstract":"John Carruthers Stanly, a free man of color, submits that he purchased \"a negro male of the age of two years, named John, whom he considers his child\"; in 1801, he purchased \"a mulatto child named John, who is the result of a matrimonial connection between your Petitioner and Kitty.\"  Stanly, of the opinion that \"it is inconsistent with nature, for the parent to wish his child in a state of vassalage, either to another or himself,\" asks that said children be manumitted.  He requests that two-year-old John be \"known in future by the name of James Florence\" and that the other child \"hereafter to be known & distinguished by the name of John Stewart Stanly.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Purchased own family (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale (enslaved children)"},{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchased for emancipation "},{"subject":"Frees own family (FPOC)"}]}]}